Microsoft, the unified communications and software company, has established a research centre in Taiwan, it announced at the Computex Taipei, Asia’s largest IT trade fair.

The new research centre will researching cloud computing. Cloud computing is basically data storage that is hosted online by tech firms. There has been a lot of hesitancy over the uptake of cloud computing with many people doubting the security of it. However, with more and more companies turning to cloud computing, the negative views have turned positive and security systems are improving. Now Microsoft will spend a considerable portion of its $9.5 billion research budget on cloud computing this year. So hopefully the IT security of cloud computing should improve and people should be sure of their data safety !