It`s not over for Microsoft just yet.
In 2019, the Pentagon awarded Microsoft its Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract, which had the potential to be worth $10 billion over 10 years. The contract`s purpose was to help modernize the Department of Defense`s IT infrastructure and cloud capabilities. Amazon, which lost out on the contract upon it being given to Microsoft, sued the Pentagon, claiming external factors unfairly influenced the awarding process.
The external factors Amazon felt influenced the process included then-U.S. President Donald Trump`s public grudge with Jeff Bezos and, by extension, the Trump administration`s issues with Amazon, which Bezos founded. There was also another element of conflict to be found in Trump`s criticisms of the Washington Post, which Bezos owns.
Amazon didn`t let up on the litigation front, stretching out its lawsuit all the way to 2021 until, at long last, the Pentagon canceled the contract entirely, ripping it away from Mi...
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