https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/29/microsoft_defends_jedi_bid/ > Microsoft has responded to critics - some of them on the payroll - over its decision to keep selling tech to the US military, including its recent bid for a whopping $10bn cloud contract tendered by the Pentagon. > There are three reasons why, president Brad Smith said in a blog, the company shouldn’t heed calls from some employees to step back from the latest project, or others, with the Department of Defense (DoD).