Google Wins Freeze on U.S. Contract With Microsoft
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Google Inc. won a temporary court order stopping the U.S. Interior Department from moving ahead with an e-mail project that favored Microsoft Corp., after alleging improprieties in bidding on the $49.3 million contract.
A federal judge in Washington halted the U.S. from proceeding with a Microsoft e-mail system for the department’s 88,000 employees in an order unsealed yesterday. U.S. Court of Federal Claims Judge Susan Braden cited deficiencies in the procurement process in her order.