Federal judge blocks government's Microsoft e-mail contract in Google challenge

[JURIST] A judge for the US Court of Federal Claims [official website] has issued a preliminary injunction preventing the US Department of Interior (DOI) [official website] from accepting a bid from Microsoft [corporate website] to overhaul its e-mail system, according to a ruling made public Tuesday. Google [corporate website; JURIST news archive] had filed a lawsuit [JURIST report] in November alleging that the DOI arbitrarily decided only to allow Microsoft to compete for the contract. Google was allegedly excluded because…