Microsoft flips the script on Amazon with sustained protest against NSA cloud contract

For those of y'all who proceed upwards on Microsoft's Azure activities, yous know its deject contracts are a big deal for the company. Equally such, when Microsoft's Pentagon-awarded JEDI cloud contract got dissolved, information technology was a less-than-platonic situation for the company. Doubly so as, based on the timing of JEDI's termination, the decision seemed to have come in part due to Amazon'due south lengthy legal battle with the U.South. government over the deal'south awarding procedure and potential Trump administration interference.

Now, Microsoft'southward pulling something of an Uno reverse card with a complaint well-nigh the NSA awarding a cloud contract to Amazon. Not only that, but the protest has been officially sustained by the U.Due south. Government Accountability Office (GAO). Here's an excerpt from the GAO statement:

On October 29, 2022, the U.South. Government Accountability Role (GAO) sustained the protest filed by the Microsoft Corporation, of Redmond, Washington. Microsoft challenged the award of a contract to Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), of Seattle, Washington under solicitation No. H98230-xx-R-0225. The solicitation was issued past the National Security Agency (NSA) for cloud services in support of that agency'due south classified and unclassified computing requirements (NSA procurement proper noun WILDANDSTORMY, or WandS). GAO found certain aspects of the agency'due south evaluation to be unreasonable and, in light thereof, recommended that NSA reevaluate the proposals consistent with the conclusion and make a new source pick conclusion.

There'due south no telling how long of an ordeal could materialize from Microsoft's protest. For reference, the JEDI battle lasted roughly two years.

The AT&T version of Surface Duo is now getting Android 11

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The AT&T version of Surface Duo is at present getting Android 11

After a very long wait, the original Surface Duo is now eligible to receive its over-the-air OS update to Android 11. Hither is what is new and stock-still with the biggest update yet for Microsoft's kickoff dual-screen Android device.