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Celebrating innovation and ideas: World IP Day
This year’s World IP Day theme is Innovation: Respect It, which aims to promote the link...
Author: sassoong Date: 04/21/2008
Listen UP! Indigenous Forum
Microsoft Australia in consultation with Indigenous partners, Yarnteen Aboriginal and Torres Strait...
Author: sassoong Date: 04/14/2008
ISO Takes Control of OOXML
Following its announcement on 2 April that Draft International Standard 29500 (known as Office Open...
Author: sassoong Date: 04/10/2008
On My Way
You may have noticed advertising concerning Microsoft’s On My Way campaign, and some of our...
Author: sassoong Date: 04/07/2008
Ecma Office Open XML Document format appears to win approval as an ISO/IEC Standard
REDMOND, Wash. — April 1, 2008 — After more than 14 months of intensive review, a Joint...
Author: sassoong Date: 04/02/2008
Austrade-Microsoft US mission to promote financial services technology
Austrade and Microsoft Australia will lead an inaugural trade mission from 4-6 June to the United...
Author: sassoong Date: 03/26/2008
Globalisation: The changing role of lawyers in a flat world
Photo: Courtesy of Sydney Law School Senior Vice President and Worldwide General Counsel for...
Author: sassoong Date: 03/06/2008
Can the value for money principle survive the Standard Format battle?
Did you hear that the Ballot Resolution Meeting (BRM) of the International Standards Organisation...
Author: sassoong Date: 03/05/2008
Scams Target You: Protect Yourself
Microsoft is partnering with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission on its 2008 consumer...
Author: sassoong Date: 02/28/2008
Expanding Interoperability
Microsoft has announced that it will make its most widely used enterprise business products more...
Author: sassoong Date: 02/27/2008
NSW Minister for Volunteering launches Microsoft Australia Employee Citizenship program
Microsoft Australia yesterday (14 February) officially launched the company’s Employee...
Author: sassoong Date: 02/14/2008
Bill Gates: World Economic Forum 2008
Chairman of Microsoft, Bill Gates last week (24 January) addressed the World Economic Forum 2008 in...
Author: sassoong Date: 01/29/2008
Privacy: Redefinition in the digital age
Actor Marlon Brando put it succinctly when he said “Privacy is not something that I'm merely...
Author: sassoong Date: 01/01/2008
New World Class Cyber Crime Lab announced
The only Microsoft laboratory in the southern hemisphere designed to tackle emerging cyber crime...
Author: sassoong Date: 12/03/2007
First Microsoft studio in Northern Territory
Last month (November 2007), Microsoft and the Northern Territory government signed a memorandum of...
Author: sassoong Date: 12/02/2007
New calculator launched to help women assess breast cancer
A web based calculator designed to assess a woman’s personal risk of breast cancer and their...
Author: sassoong Date: 11/26/2007
NSW Minister for Commerce visits Microsoft
Last week (November 19), Microsoft Australia welcomed the NSW Minister for Roads & Commerce, the...
Author: sassoong Date: 11/26/2007
E-Election 2007: Communications technology and elections
The evening of 26 September 1960 was a defining moment for Western democratic politics. On that...
Author: sassoong Date: 11/14/2007
Welcome
Welcome to augovtaffairs: Microsoft’s new Australian blog dedicated to Government...
Author: sassoong Date: 10/22/2007