The United States Department of Defense apparently needed a new office suite. For some reason I always find it hard to grasp the fact that the government does also need to use consumer software. But it’s true!
Microsoft has now licensed out their Office 365 cloud based services to the Department of Defense. This is great news for the company as it will bring in a lot of extra revenue. It sounds as though the company will also be licensing out a a number of other cloud based services to the Department of Defense, so it was a big contract to land.
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