U.S. judge orders temporary halt to Microsoft's work on Pentagon's JEDI contract

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Thursday granted Amazon.com Inc's request for a preliminary injunction to pause the U.S. Department of Defense and Microsoft Corp from moving forward on an up-to-$10 billion (£8 billion) cloud computing deal.Judge Patricia E. Campbell-Smith made public her order but did release a sealed opinion accompanying the decision. She also ordered Amazon to post $42 million in the event that the injunction was issued wrongfully. Earlier this week, Amazon's Amazon..