Michel Euler, The Associated Press
The Justice Department is asking a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit filed by Microsoft that seeks to quash a law allowing the government to demand customer data stored electronically while prohibiting Microsoft from exposing the requests. 
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Microsoft Corp. on Monday said it , an open-source cloud technology that started in Boulder. Terms were not disclosed.
, which is technology created by Boulder’s OpDemand, developed software that makes it easier to manage and expand apps in the cloud in order to reach millions of customers. Microsoft is buying Deis from San Francisco’s Engine Yard, which in 2015. According to Microsoft, Deis still employs a small number of people in Boulder.
In a , Microsoft ‘s Scott Guthrie said the Deis team will join Microsoft and contribute to the Redmond, Wash.-based software company’s Azure cloud-computing platform. Wired magazine a way for Microsoft to better compete with Google and Amazon.
