Pentagon names Microsoft and Amazon as $10B cloud contract finalists

Re:Pentagon names Microsoft and Amazon as $10B cloud contrac... by atlantacrackers on Thursday April 11, 2019 @12:28PM (#19636271)

Powerpoint is by far the most important piece of software in the military...used in planning for literally every mission from where to build latrines to mission planning for seal teams. Do you think Microsoft employees should strike over the use of Powerpoint?

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Re:Pentagon names Microsoft and Amazon as $10B cloud contrac... by paganel on Thursday April 11, 2019 @01:33PM (#19637027)

I remember seeing video of ISIS actively using Google Earth images in order to coordinate their attacks, and they were not the only one in Syria using this Google product.

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Re:Pentagon names Microsoft and Amazon as $10B cloud contrac... by lohszvu on Thursday April 11, 2019 @02:52PM (#19637923)

Google earth started as a CIA contract.

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Re:Pentagon names Microsoft and Amazon as $10B cloud contrac... by panzagl on Thursday April 11, 2019 @03:24PM (#19638222)

With a different company that Google bought

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