MS Public Sector Team Blog

Greenmonk Interview with Rob Bernard, Microsoft’s Chief Environmental Strategist

Oliver Bell's Weblog — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 06:31:49 GMT

Greenmonk, Redmonk’s online blog covering environmental sustainability, recently interviewed Rob Bernard, our Chief Environmental Strategist. They have the interview posted as a video; I talked to Microsoft’s Chief Environmental Strategist, Rob...(read more)

Weekend Reading - 50 Internet Milestones

Oliver Bell's Weblog — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 06:09:48 GMT

CNet have a summary of their top 50 milestones for the Internet posted as a single story; We decided to plough the history of the entire Internet, from the roots of its underlying technology, to the Web properties that helped it explode, the litigation...(read more)

Freddy Mac chooses x.400, vendors rush to deliver

Oliver Bell's Weblog — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:42:28 GMT

In other news sixteen years ago the US mortgage provider Freddie Mac has selected x.400 as their primary standard for electronic mail. For those of you who do not know Freddie Mac, the first paragraph of this article explains more; Freddie Mac, the Federal...(read more)

Microsoft Virtual Earth for Texas Emergency Management Support

Virtual Earth For Public Sector — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:16:25 GMT

The Texas Natural Resources Information System (TNRIS) , a division of the Texas Water Development Board, is putting the final touches on the Texas Spatial Viewer application developed using Microsoft Virtual Earth and SQL Server 2008 . The Texas Spatial...(read more)

Microsoft Live Labs Political Streams

Oliver Bell's Weblog — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:47:31 GMT

Mary Jo Foley is has a post up this morning about the Political Social Stream that Microsoft Live Labs are launching today. Microsoft’s Live Labs — the Microsoft incubation lab that combines Microsoft researchers with MSN product managers — has launched...(read more)

seamless global communication

Jerry Fishenden's technology policy blog — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:54:00 GMT

To the Queen Elizabeth conference centre in Westminster yesterday, to speak at the World Hi-Tech Forum . Our session, on the topic of Beyond the Internet , is hosted by Nicholas Owen of "TV news fame" (as they say) who turns out to be very clued-up...(read more)

Obama and McCain debate tech issues…

Oliver Bell's Weblog — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:30:50 GMT

Well sort of, this is video of two separate meetings, visits to Google campus by each of the candidates. “The 463: Inside Tech Policy” blog put these two together; Not shockingly, outside of knowing nods at the benefits clean technologies,...(read more)

Where did all the "experts" go?

Oliver Bell's Weblog — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:37 GMT

Those of you still following the drama that relates to the standardization of OpenXML will probably have caught a story in the Inquirer earlier this week that announced that thirteen of the twenty three members of the Standards Norway document format...(read more)

Nice work Intercontinental Hotels Group!

Oliver Bell's Weblog — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:42:38 GMT

Long time readers will remember a post that I wrote a little while ago, expressing some frustration at the hypocrisy that many hotels around the world show when it comes to then environmental commitments. For many hotels, environmental commitments are...(read more)

Microsoft Virtual Earth to Include DigitalGlobe Satellite Imagery

Virtual Earth For Public Sector — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:11:38 GMT

For the last couple of years, readers of this blog and those of you who see me present at events have heard me highlight Microsoft's high-resolution aerial imagery as a competitive advantage over the satellite imagery that is predominant in our competitor's...(read more)

El Camino Hospital becomes the latest Amalga Customer

Oliver Bell's Weblog — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:38:50 GMT

The Healthcare IT Blog, which is maintained by members of Microsoft’s Health Solutions group, has a post up that talks about El Camino hospital adopting Amalga, our hospital management suite. They also list a number of other high profile hospitals...(read more)

Estonia’s Cyber Security Policy

Oliver Bell's Weblog — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:27:23 GMT

A year-and-a-half after the coordinated denial-of-service attacks against its government and commercial computer systems, Estonia has released a national cyber security strategy that includes details about the attacks and offers recommendations for preventing...(read more)

Fun with Microsoft PowerPoint, pptPlex

Oliver Bell's Weblog — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:14:28 GMT

A colleague of mine used this for a presentation at an event I attended last week, pptPlex provides a very different way of delivering PowerPoint presentations. From the pptPlex homepage; pptPlex is a plug-in that explores an alternate method for presenting...(read more)

EC calls for businesses to act on IPv6 deployment

Oliver Bell's Weblog — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:04:46 GMT

It is very encouraging to see the European Commission push for more IPv6 deployment activity. The story in the UK’s ITPro magazine focuses on comments made by Detlef Eckert at a recent conference in Madrid. The inevitability of IPv6 means that businesses...(read more)

Thailand, a spiritual computing hub

Oliver Bell's Weblog — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:58:42 GMT

It has now been almost two years since I made the jump from Redmond to Singapore, it has been a fun and educational journey. Early on it was evident that the use cases for technology here in the region had the potential to vary dramatically from what...(read more)