One of the long-term priorities for delivering eGovernment services across the European Union has been to...

Interoperability – the ability of different IT systems and services to work together – continues to be an...

What does the cloud mean for the future production, distribution and consumption of audiovisual services? Does...

The potential economic gains from cloud computing are greatest when users and suppliers enjoy a large-scale,...

In a packed auditorium at the European Parliament, the Commissioner for the EU Internal Market (DG Markt)...

In May, our Vice President for European Affairs John Vassallo wrote about the newly announced EU Digital...

 It’s a type of Rorschach inkblot test: two people could look at the EC’s Communication on the Digital...

A few months ago I authored a post that sets the context for some of the privacy discussion that’s currently...

Chances are you already have a reputation online, even if you don't want one. On Web sites across the...

 Bullies are notorious for tormenting their victims face to face—at school, on the playground, in...

Social networking Web sites like MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, and Windows Live Spaces are services people can...

As our use of the Internet and related technologies evolves, so do our privacy needs and concerns – and...

Microsoft welcomes the “Digital Agenda for Europe” as a bold roadmap for action. We share the European...

In the past few weeks, a set of remarkable documents have been released, all addressing the fight against...

  ICT interoperability is a fundamental challenge for our industry.

One aspect of government we thoroughly dislike here in the UK is useless and inefficient bureaucracy. 

 Microsoft strongly supports the efforts of the European Commission and governments across Europe to...

“I believe in horses….The automobile is a transient phenomenon”.

Last week, Commissioner Reding re-stated her desire to reform and modernize the EU’s Data Protection Framework...

Recently I caught up with Child Focus, a NGO in Belgium with whom Microsoft has been partnering for several...

With the uptake of cloud computing and web3.0 (web2.0 + mobility), consumers will have more access to...

The age of ‘cloud computing’ is dawning, which will allow our data, software and computing power to be on our...

Hear me talking about the Eye on Earth online tool. This website shows data from thousands of air and water...

In Europe and elsewhere, computing is experiencing a powerful transformation. Driven by continuous innovations...

Roger Halbheer is one of the leading online security experts in Europe. We’re delighted to have him in our...

  On Thursday 4th February in Abuja, Nigeria, a gathering of pop and rap musicians, led by producer and...

Safer Internet Day is all about creating awareness to help protect young people online.  

Microsoft across the Central and Eastern European region has been marking Safer Internet Day for a number of...

Safer Internet Day, organised by Insafe, will be celebrated on 9 February 2010 in more than 50 countries...

To celebrate Safer Internet Day 2010 and for the second year in a row, Microsoft subsidiaries across Europe...

Last week turned into a seriously busy week as the Council of Europe and the European Commission celebrated...

Short presentation of the selected videos for the Think Privacy competition ran by European Schoolnet and...

Cloud computing is hitting the headlines, and for good reason: it is providing business and consumers with a...

Brad Smith, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Microsoft Corporation gave a speech on “Technology...

As I had announced on the weekend, yesterday I was lucky to accompany Microsoft’s General Counsel, Brad Smith,...

Over the past months there has been a remarkable upraise in discussions around the topic of Cloud Computing...

This week, we will see a very busy Data Protection Day.

At her European Parliament hearing last week, Commissioner-Designate Viviane Reding mentioned online privacy...

Brad Smith, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Microsoft Corporation gave a speech on: “Technology...

New videos regarding Data Potection Day 2010 and the importance of data and online privacy!  

Last month we organized an event at the European Parliament hosted by Bill Newton-Dunn MEP on the occasion of...

As each year, on 28 January 2010, we celebrate Data Protection Day in Europe and other continents to raise...

Times have changed. "Microsoft has been on a journey itself... doing things on interoperability that were...

For all the buzz about cloud computing, the potential benefits are real: cost savings as well as the exciting...

When we think of fakes and copies, our minds each produce different thoughts and images, depending on our...

John Wood, Chair of the European Research Area Board, gives a personal assessment of how research needs to...

Potential cost-savings from eHealth are being jeopardised because computer systems cannot talk to one another,...

This has already been a busy month in Europe for Microsoft cooperating with competitors to ensure that...

Please click below to view a short and sweet 1-minute interview with Erich Andersen, VP and Deputy General...

eHealth is key to better patient care but health systems should work together i.e. be interoperable if...

Video from Microsoft Interoperability Series on the EU Services Directive. Filmed in Brussels, October 2009.

Erich Andersen, VP and Deputy General Counsel of the Windows Business at Microsoft, speaking about the...

The internet can act as a platform for Europe’s innovation and imagination, but only if public confidence is...

Europeans are spending more of their lives online, with the web providing access to entertainment, banking and...

The internet offers Europe’s children tremendous educational and social benefits, but may also expose them to...

The ICT revolution continues to deliver new products and services to more --  and more diverse --...

Information and communication technology (ICT) has the power to transform people’s lives by helping them to...

Information technology plays a crucial role in enabling EU environmental policy goals to become a reality. The...

PDC: Ray Ozzies keynote, highlighting choice, diversity -- and interoperability

The EU's Services Directive aims to facilitate the provision of services across borders within the European...

Interoperability and eHealth might at first glance appear as very different concepts – but the actual...

The EU’s education commissioner, Ján Figel’, is pushing for change in European universities – to the economic...

Viviane Reding, European commissioner for all things hi-tech, is known for telling it like it is. A passionate...

As the global financial turmoil continues to cast its shadow, government leaders are gathering in Brussels to...

The Internet and other modern information and communication technologies are transforming Europe's economy and...

Confidential data need to be kept confidential – but there are times when the information needs to be shared,...

Collaboration is at the heart of the European project. Implementation of numerous European policies depends on...

“The creation of a single European Research Area (ERA) - to mirror the single market with the four freedoms of...

The much vaunted globalisation of business and politics has not by-passed the world of R&D.

Cluster Stew: the European Commission is formulating an all-embracing strategy on cluster development to boost...

In 1997, Microsoft opened its first big European lab – and it placed it in what was then Europe's only serious...

The Science|Business Innovation Board says Europe's innovation policies need to change, to encourage...

Is the essence of a cluster physical proximity or, given broadband Internet and associated communications...

Innovation in the ICT sector has transformed how a large segment of the world's population works,...