Microsoft Hardens Windows Phone for Government Duty

Found on eWEEK on Sunday, 24 August 2014
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Microsoft piles on the security features in a bid to lure government agencies over to the Windows Phone 8.1 camp.

IBM announced in June that it was opening two new SoftLayer-based cloud data centers for U.S. government workloads. Anne Altman, general manager of IBM's US Federal division, said in a statement that her company "designed these centers with government clients' needs in mind, investing in added security features and redundancies to provide a high level of availability."

In a perfect world that would not be neccessary, because even consumer grade phones would be secure.