The Law?

[turbinedrive]

After this "upgrade" is the email system on UK soil and therefore subject to British law?

[iptables101]

I got confused here. What are you trying to ask? 

[DRTobin]

The domain amsprd0710.outlook.com where the on-line outlook is hosted is, of cause, registered to Microsoft and the IP address of the server hosting that domain is 157.56.249.86

The following link http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm allows a search for where a server is geographically located (in theory):

The result for the Outlook server is given

http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm?GetLocation&IpAddress=157.56.249.86

or  you can take this result:

http://www.checksitetraffic.com/traffic_spy/outlook.com

Both place the server on the US west coast so it is reasonable to assume that is the case.

[DaveA]

Hi,

Actually from what I know there are are three main server locations for Office 365, covering the Americas, Europe and the East.  There may be be more than that, but it was a while ago.

As such I believe that the server for the EU is actually located within the EU, and so there wouldn't be any legal confusion.  In any case I suspect that a server in one country that provides a service in another may actually be covered by both, although I'm no legal expert and it probably wouldn't be a straightforward case.

Dave