September, 2010

By Teresa Carlson , Vice President, Microsoft Federal  I usually focus on technology happenings in the federal space, but I wanted to quickly call attention to a very exciting announcement that the State of Minnesota made today.  Minnesota’s...

By Teresa Carlson , Vice President, Microsoft Federal  At this month’s O’Reilly Gov 2.0 Summit , David Eaves discussed some incredible solutions citizen developers in Vancouver are creating using open data.  This is part of what David calls...

By Teresa Carlson , Vice President, Microsoft Federal Cyber security may be the single most important issue facing IT professionals today.  Protecting our nation’s technology infrastructure is essential to maintaining economic vitality and national...

We received some very exciting news last month when Virginia Governor McDonnell announced that Microsoft’s next data center would be built in Mecklenberg County, Virginia!  Many of us that support the federal government call Virginia home, and we...

By Teresa Carlson , Vice President, Microsoft Federal   When we think about “social” software we tend to focus on applications used in public communities like Twitter and Facebook.  Many of us in federal use sites like GovLoop to connect with...