Microsoft UK Government Blog
News and information about Microsoft related IT for people who work in UK government from the Microsoft UK Government team.
Stuart Aston is the Chief Security Advisor for Microsoft in the UK and runs the Government Security...
Author: Stuart Aston Date: 01/31/2014
Join us for morning inspiration with an afternoon Unconference. Meet and learn from a network of...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 01/30/2014
This year, as part of the Microsoft CityNext initiative, Microsoft is partnering with the Municipal...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 01/24/2014
In the central government team at Microsoft we have been using Yammer in earnest for the last 6...
Author: Pauline Yau Date: 01/23/2014
It’s easy to fall into the trap of treating the IT department like the A&E at the local...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 01/20/2014
This post is by Ollie Barton of Guide Dogs. Barton has 26 years of experience in helping people with...
Author: Ollie Barton Date: 01/15/2014
Everyone at your office is working unpaid overtime. You’ve stretched your budget as thin as a...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 01/13/2014
Windows XP support ends in less than 3 months and you still haven’t upgraded: How do you get started?
The rumours are true -- support for Windows XP ends in less than 3 months. After that, there...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 01/11/2014
Data transparency has been a priority for the UK central government for about two years now. But...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 01/09/2014
Discussions about public sector collaboration usually focus on ways for different departments to...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 01/03/2014
Transformation is a major theme of Microsoft CityNext. To meet the unique challenges faced by urban...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 12/30/2013
Cloud services may be big business – but the benefits of the cloud are not always well...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 12/24/2013
This post is by Pamela Mundt from Microsoft's Edinburgh office. Earlier this year, we invited our...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 12/23/2013
Maintaining the 150-year-old infrastructure in London’s Underground network is no easy task....
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 12/18/2013
Check your pocket. You’ve got a smartphone, right? It handles e-mail and texts and photos and...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 12/13/2013
In just under five months, Microsoft will end support for Windows XP – and running XP after 8...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 12/12/2013
Support for Windows XP and Office 2003 will end in April 2014. As organisations move to newer,...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 12/12/2013
Cities have the potential to become economic engines, accelerating growth and creating opportunity...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 12/09/2013
By Derrick McCourt, head of Public Sector, Microsoft UK This year’s iNetwork Winter Conference...
Author: Derrick McCourt Date: 12/05/2013
This post is by Raluca Anghel. Commuting in a city of 2.69 million residents can be tedious, but...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 11/27/2013
If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you’ve already heard us talking about all the...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 11/21/2013
A recent survey of UK workers found that 39% say their organisation needs to rethink how it...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 11/20/2013
Government offices are in a bind. They have to manage ever-larger data sets to comply with...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 11/15/2013
Seattle is poised at the forefront of energy efficiency, with a plan to dramatically reduce...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 11/13/2013
Public sector organisations across the UK are challenged by the current austerity environment, but...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 11/12/2013
Guest Blogger: Neil Carter, Head of Local and Regional Government, Microsoft UK Growing faster than...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 11/07/2013
Microsoft SharePoint can play a vital role in many areas of a business. Whether your organisation...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 11/04/2013
The Government Procurement Services reappointed Microsoft to the G-Cloud Framework v4, following the...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 10/31/2013
Work isn’t a place anymore; it’s a thing we do. And increasingly,it’s a thing we...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 10/28/2013
With support for Windows XP set to end on April 8, it’s only natural that public sector...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 10/25/2013
Putting citizen data to work is a key part of transforming public sector services and finding ways...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 10/24/2013
Public sector organisations are increasingly looking to the lessons of ICT consumerisation to help...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 10/22/2013
After weeks of anticipation, Windows 8.1 rolled out around the world this week. The update offers a...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 10/18/2013
Embracing a ‘digital by default’ approach to citizen services can help public sector...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 10/17/2013
Mobile working in a flexible, collaborative environment is the future of public sector productivity...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 10/16/2013
There’s no hotter buzzword in all of government IT than ‘digital by default.’ By...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 10/15/2013
CESG issued its latest End User Devices Security and Configuration Guidance on the 14th of October....
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 10/14/2013
Sometimes it feels like IT departments went from being the most impersonal part of a business to the...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 10/11/2013
Cutting a £1 million from an organisation’s budget over the course of three years is no...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 10/10/2013
Remember how people used to talk about the Internet as an 'information superhighway' back in the...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 10/09/2013
In the future, when a police officer heads out on patrol, their equipment checklist might look like...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 10/04/2013
It’s natural to consider costs when mulling a technology upgrade – but it’s...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 10/03/2013
New guidelines from the Government Communications Headquarters' Communications-Electronics Security...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 09/30/2013
Public sector organisations are all under pressure to deliver more services ‘digital by...
Author: Jesse Stanchak Date: 09/25/2013