During the start of the current year, Microsoft, Amazon and Google have started to offer the data of the host public on the cloud services, and also this competition among these companies is considered to be increasing and heating up. Microsoft has publicized the fact that SharePoint is considered to be the platform for the front end which is made for stimulus tracking the website of recovery.gov, and also it has some of the other ideas in its sleeves.

Adam Susie, who is the federal CTO of Microsoft, has said during an interview that as an example we can see that recently Microsoft has been working with NASA in order to develop one web site that would be called Be A Martian, and some part of which can be developed into the platform which is crowd sourced such as the Moderator of Google. The particular feature has been called the Town Hall by NASA and Microsoft and it would be allowing the users for asking the questions, read the responses, vote on them, sort the questions according to the categories, earn a reputation and statistics such as the number of the votes.