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Microsoft to keep Pentagon bid amid ethics concerns

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Microsoft to keep Pentagon bid amid ethics concernsMicrosoft said Friday it is prepared to provide its technology to the US military, including for a massive cloud computing project, despite ethics concerns among some of its employees and others in Silicon Valley. “All of us who live in this country depend on its strong defense,” Microsoft president Brad Smith said in a blog post. The statement came two weeks after Google dropped out of the bidding for the huge Pentagon cloud computing contract that could be worth up to $10 billion.