📚 Microsoft is bolstering its legal team, preparing for regulators

The tech world's changing, and Microsoft wants additional counsel as a result. What you need to know In recent years, talks of tech regulations have sprung up more and more. Governments and regulatory bodies around the world have weighed in on Big Tech. Microsoft is bulking up its legal army to prepare for the incoming tidal wave of change. In a recent interview with Axios, Microsoft's president Brad Smith outlined the company's plan to bulk up its legal and corporate affairs division in the upcoming fiscal year. Specifically, the goal is to grow it by 20% in the approaching year and more in the years after, as Microsoft's interested in picking up more people than a single year would allow for. Microsoft's legal and corporate personnel will get reshuffled as a result of the company's hiring spree strategy. For starters, general counsel Dev Stahlkopf has left Microsoft and gone to Cisco. According to Axios, these are the other major roster alterations: Two of Microsoft's ... ...