Cybersecurity
Amazon Paused Rollout of Microsoft Office for a Year After Hacks
- Companies teamed up to make sure cloud-based product is secure
- Amazon employees were expected to receive software this year
Amazon committed $1 billion over five years to buy Microsoft’s 365 software for its roughly 1.5 million employees.
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Amazon.com Inc. has delayed the deployment of Microsoft Corp.’s cloud-based Office suite for a year as the two companies work to resolve Amazon concerns about the security of the bundle of email and productivity software.
The tech giants signed a deal last year to provide Amazon employees with Microsoft 365, the cloud-based package that includes Word, Outlook, Windows and other software. Amazon has long used versions of Office installed on its own servers.