Microsoft has announced that it intends to give away a huge amount of cloud services to support the public good. The total cost of cloud services that Microsoft plans to give away is $1 billion and the free services will go to nonprofit and university researchers over the next three years. The stated goal of the program is to support 70,000 nonprofits.

Microsoft says that its goal is to help these organizations unlock insights and to help lead to breakthroughs for science and technology as well as to help address economic and social challenges. Microsoft plans to serve the broad needs of the nonprofit community through the Microsoft Philanthropies arm that was founded last month.
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