Owning Post seems to cost Bezos quite a fortune.
What about the Post is related to this, specifically?
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Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract
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#62Wow what a course change. For the last couple years there have been articles on HN about how the JEDI requirements were written to specifically exclude Microsoft/ibm/gcp because the DoD preferred AWS so its selection was a forgone conclusion. Also coverage of the resulting lawsuits by those companies over the very aws-tailored “requirements”
When I saw this article I figured it would go to MS.
https://www.businessinsider.com/sec-of-defense-to-look-into-...
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Texas has a separate electrical grid from the rest of the US. This is interesting. The Wikipedia article has this gem: "The Texas Interconnection is maintained as a separate grid for political, rather than technical reasons" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2003/08/why-texas-has-it...
Core to many Texans identity is a belief that someday Texas is going to secede from the Union again and become its own independent country. Don't get me wrong, I love Texas and I love many of the Texans I've met for being some of the chillest, most down to earth, pragmatic and welcoming people I have ever met, but they are a bit weird about this particular issue sometimes.
It may not seem so weird when the USA as a whole is going down in flames someday.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
If Amazon losing this deal makes US oligarchs think twice about getting involved in politics, it's probably a good thing.
Isn't the Washington Post(and in turn Bezos) that Trump has an issue?
What was Bezos motive for purchasing the Washington Post? It certainly wasn't financial.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is it? After you hit your number of free articles for the month, then yes.
This has happened to me multiple times on the HN front page today. I try the web links -- no luck. What's the point of having these articles on HN, if the more of them there are, the fewer people can read and discuss them without paying? It's antithetical to open discussion and analysis.
https://bitly.com/ + https://outline.com/
Come on it's hacker news, they specifically say workarounds are ok. I figured the paywalls were just a test honestly. If you're determined you should be able to find a way to read it.
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#66I wonder how azure employees feel about this.
Anyone who would care about this should have left when Windows 10 pushed out forced spying on users.
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#67A key ammo that Microsoft has to get customers to its cloud is their Windows and Office 365 franchise. It is likely like many traditional companies Pentagon wanted to move their mail, storage, powerpoint/excel/word, etc to this cloud rather than use lambda or other hot features that AWS has.
This contract has nothing to do with Office 365.
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#68Given the choice between Cadillac and Pontiac, the Pentagon chose....
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#69Since the early 2000s, Microsoft has done a significant amount of work for the NSA. AWS has had GovCloud, and it is true the CIA uses AWS, but MSFT has built out quite well some of the more exotic requests of the NSA. The crown jewel of the NSA’s MSFT partnership is the San Antonio, Texas data center. The “5150 Rogers Road” data center was chosen because Texas has cheap electricity, which is an enormous cost outlay f…
The electrical grid is one of the more subtle, but critically important points I hadn't considered. I think the DoD's decades long reliance on AD and Windows in general gave MSFT a pretty huge advantage as well. Imagine trying to shift away from that Windows only world in any meaningful way in an organization and bureaucracy of that size. What a nightmare.
Our AD, private org, is made up of 1.4 million user accounts. We are locked into AD forever and ever and ever...
I imagine it is the same for the DoD.
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#70Although $10B might not seem like much in terms of revenue for the cloud companies (that statement feels weird writing), it is potentially worth a lot more.
The DoD drives a lot of the US economy and a lot of companies have DoD contracts. This win, gives Microsoft an advantage n trying to get these companies on Azure and solidifies Windows and Office 365 positions at these companies. The follow on effects will likely be worth many multiples of this contract.