Microsoft Wins Largest Federal Contract for Cloud
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Microsoft Corp. won a contract to provide Web-based e-mail and other services to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, making headway in efforts to gain share in the growing market for cloud computing.
The federal agency will move 120,000 users to the company’s Internet-based e-mail and conferencing software, said Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft. The company said it beat out Google Inc. and International Business Machines Corp. for the deal and the department confirmed it looked at all of the available competing options.