Microsoft gets nod ahead of Amazon in The Pentagon

STAN HONDA / AFP

Microsoft has edged out Amazon in The Pentagon.

Bill Gates' firm has been awarded an AED 36.6 billion cloud-computing contract by the US Department of Defense.

It's hoped that the 10-year contract will make the department more technologically flexible.

The system is called the Joint Enterprise Defence Infrastructure, or Jedi.

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