Interop is on the agenda of many public sector organizations around the world, for many, knowing where and how to start building a strategy that effectively addresses the needs of citizens, businesses, and government can be a daunting challenge. To address this, and as part of Microsoft's Connected Government Framework initiative team, ...

One of the reasons for what has been termed the digital divide is a language barrier.  At Microsoft we produce most of our products in what are regarded as the most widely spoken languages, but that still leaves a lot of people grappling with an interface that is not in their native, or in some cases, preferred tongue. [VIDEO] The aim ...

As somone that has spent the majority of their working life at Microsoft, Craig Bartholomew has been involved in a lot of our better known products...in his current role as a General Manager in the Education Products Group, he is driving towards serving a very important set of customers that are the basis for our future - that of the ...

I am not saying anything profound or ground-breaking when I make the statement that "interoperability is a complex business".  All sorts of people in the public sector are directly and indirectly involved with issues pertaining to it, and this is at a number of levels including policy, standards and technology.  Jason ...

Partners in Learning (or PiL for short) is a program through which we engage with our education customers through the highest levels of government in countries, and Kristen Weatherby is the person leading the charge on this at a corporate level. [VIDEO] The complete set of offerings through this program is wide-ranging and contains everything ...

An email from D.S. Paul Gillespie (now retired) from the Toronto Police service to Bill Gates requesting Microsoft's assistance in tracking down criminals that were involved in the exploitation of children kicked off a 2 year effort to develop an application that is now being picked up by many other law enforcement organizations across ...

I was able to spend some time recently with Jon Rosenberg, our Director of Shared Source programs at Microsoft.  [VIDEO] Shared Source is essentially an unmbrella initiative through which we share a lot of our most valuable IP with not just Public Sector customers, but also the broader developer community. Jon covered a lot of ground, but ...

I had the great pleasure of chatting with my old friend, Roberto Bamberger, late last week.  Roberto manages all of our public sector briefings at our Executive Briefing Centre at our Redmond campus.  In a past life, Roberto has also been a Solutions Architect, so he is well versed on all manner of technologies and public ...

Aidan McCarthy is our Worldwide Industry Manager for Schools, and in this interview he outlines some of the work we are doing to drive innovative solutions and program offerings into the sector. [VIDEO]  Topics he covers at a high-level include:Learning GatewayPartners in LearningSchool of the Future...and more.I have also lined up a ...