Originally published on the Microsoft CIO Network. Join today . Over the years, outsourcing has been a proven strategy to lower costs, manage complexity and free IT to become more strategic in making the business more profitable. But with the emergence...

Last December on TechCrunch, Rohit Khare posted an article called “ Privacy Theater: Why Social Networks Only Pretend To Protect You .” In it, he deconstructed the data breach at RockYou, in which thirty-two million user accounts were exposed...

Originally published on the Microsoft CIO Network. Join today . Thinking back to CES in Las Vegas, one of the things that stood out was the tremendous increase in choice for consumers when it comes to accessing and consuming information. There is the...

A while ago I had the opportunity to sit down with Microsoft’s CIO Tony Scott to talk about “mission critical” applications. (See “ Interview with Tony Scott on Mission Critical in Today’s Enterprise .”) Since that...