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Microsoft 365 is Microsoft’s subscription-based cloud productivity platform (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), Teams for communication, 1 TB of OneDrive cloud storage, and AI‑powered Copilot.

Military Use

The Defense Enterprise Office Solutions (DEOS) agreement, worth $4.4 billion over ten years, gives the Pentagon a Microsoft 365 tenant for more than 3 million users and replaces legacy e-mail, SharePoint, and desk-installed Office with cloud versions.

Microsoft offers the U.S. military a segregated Government Cloud with various tiers of security for "sensitive" work through a specific product offering for the U.S. military "Office 365 Secret". This includes:

  • Army 365: the Army’s tenant for Teams, Exchange Online, and the desktop Office suite.
  • Flank Speed (Navy): a zero-trust Microsoft 365 environment.
  • Cloud One (Air Force)
  • Other tenants in the Marine Corps and Space Force use the same DoD 365 backbone for mail, Office apps, and collaboration.

Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Planner now come from the cloud. Licenses for Microsoft 365 are subscription-based, which means Microsoft has a vested interest and direct yearly profits from war related contracts with the U.S. military and the Pentagon. The U.S. military directly depends on Microsoft suite of product to maintain its operations.

Microsoft is also building a U.S. Department of Defense-only version of Microsoft 365 Copilot (based on GPT-4) bringing automation into the U.S. war machine.

With the U.S. military’s history of global terror and imperialism, and the U.S., with its military intelligence and equipment, providing continuous and unwavering support for the Israeli Occupation Forces, this makes Microsoft and all its products a priority target for boycotts. Microsoft has always sought to benefit from war, consistently working to bring its products into military and questionable governmental use, starting with Windows for Warships, which powered the imperial UK fleet.

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