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Google has scored a direct hit on the US Government and an indirect one on rival Microsoft with one ruling. A federal judge has agreed with Google's view that the US Department of Interior violated competitive practices when it invited bids for a web-based email system. Along with partner Onix Networking Corp., Google had sued the Department of Interior at the end of October 2010 for inviting bids for a new web-based email system for its 88,000 employees in a way that excluded its Google Apps platform. The request for bids had been phrased in a way that required bids to include the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite. Earlier this week, Washington DC federal judge Susan Braden, in a preliminary injunction prevented the Department of Interior from using Microsoft's email and collaboration. She wrote that Google has made a preliminary showing that the agency "violated the Competition in Contracting Act," passed in 1984 to promote "full and open competitive procedures" for federal contract bids. Reports said the Department was planning to initiate the move to the Microsoft based web platform towards the end of January. |
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