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We've moved the discussion to the Microsoft on Government Blog, where you'll find the latest insight from public sector leaders on how technology is driving government modernization in the US and overseas.

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How will you know when Santa Clause is coming to town?

Once the stockings are hung and the presents are wrapped, many children around the world will anxiously await a visit from Santa Clause. While we can guess his path from the North Pole, there is only one organization that k...

When is a cloud business solution right for your agency?

An interview with Susie Adams, Federal Chief Technology Advisor for Microsoft

This week, Microsoft Dynamics announced the availability of new cloud-based business solutions built specifically for federal government agencies. These solutions are delivered through a FISMA-compliant, federal-only infrastructure environment hosted by Microsoft partner

It’s Election Day – finally

By Kim Nelson, Microsoft Executive Director for e-Government

By end of day – hopefully - we will know the results of state and local elections around the country, in addition to our one national election for the Presidency.

These elections, like all of tho...

Why I’m excited about Windows 8 for government

By Joel Cherkis, General Manager, Worldwide Government and Security

The following was posted yesterday, October 30, to the Microsoft on Government Blog:

Government employees: get ready, because the way you work may never be the same. There’s a new operating system on the way that will support your flexible work style and ease the burden of using multiple devices, all while keeping your data se...

Help Desk in the DoD: It’s More Strategic Than You Think

By Dana Barnes, Director, Microsoft Joint Defense Agencies

Somewhere along the line, help desk got a bad rap. Maybe it’s because we only call the help desk when we have a problem. Whatever the reason, it’s a fact that organizations have traditionally viewed IT support as a necessary operating cost rather than a strategic function. But in DoD, this is all s...

In the DoD, Cost Savings Start with Making the Most of What You Already Own

By Leigh Madden, Senior Director, U.S. Air Force, Microsoft

As a relative newcomer to Microsoft, it was eye-opening to learn that we work with every agency in the DoD, across eve...

Stars and Stripes Newspaper Embraces Cloud Computing to Help Deliver Military News

By Dana Barnes, Director, Microsoft Joint Defense Agencies

As an essential provider of news and information to military service members, government civilians and their families stationed overseas, Stars and Stripes has an important and complex mission. With four daily newspaper editions (Mideast, Europe, Japan and Korea) a...

Navy Tackles IT Challenges at the Enterprise Level

By Andy Martin, Director, Navy and Marine Corps Team at Microsoft

Back in July, I wrote about the Navy’s decision to pursue the first-ever department-wide Enterprise Software License Agreement with Microsoft. The initiative will pay d...

Managing the Mobile Device Explosion in DoD

By Victor Akinnagbe, Microsoft Chief DoD Architect, and Jason Opdycke, Microsoft Air Force Architect

Back in June, the Defense Department unveiled its Mobile Device Strategy, designed to maximize the productivity and flexibility benefits of mobile devices, wireless infrastructure and mobile applications. The strategy acknowledges a new ...

In the DoD, better decisions start with Unified Communications

By Victor Akinnagbe, Microsoft Chief DoD Architect, and Jason Opdycke, Microsoft Air Force Architect

Communications and collaboration technology can be the difference between success and failure on the battlefield. Military leaders need the ability to access and share data in real-time, through a variety of devices, in order to make the best decisions in support of mission goals.

By Susie Adams, Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft Federal

Microsoft has had a longstanding partnership with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and today that partnership has been strengthened through a new enterprise agreement which will provide the VA with access to all of Microsoft’s current and emerging technologi...

Microsoft Lync 2010 – Now JITC Certified for Department of Defense use

By Martin B. Isaksen, DoD Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft

Microsoft Lync 2010 is now JITC certified for use in the Department of Defense. The Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) is the sole certification authority for Unified Communications in the Department of Defense. The DoD Unified Capabilities (UC) APL is established in accordance with the UC Requirements (

By Andy Martin, Director, Navy Team at Microsoft

Microsoft has reached an important milestone with the U.S. Department of the Navy: the signing of the first-ever department-wide Enterprise Software License Agreement. Long-time Microsoft partner Softchoice Corporation will implement the three-year contract, which will cover a...

New Government SharePoint Templates Help Agencies Get More from the IT They Already Own

By Nina Somerville, Federal Specialist Team Unit Director, Microsoft

How often have you owned a great piece of equipment – a car, a smartphone, what have you – for years, and then realized it had useful capabilities that you didn’t even know were there? For federal agencies seeking increased productivity on tight budgets, revelations like that can bring huge sighs of relief.

With the White House’s “do more with less” ...

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