Accessibility
> Microsoft Accessibility Website
At Microsoft, our mission is to enable people and businesses throughout the world to realize their full potential. We consider our mission statement a promise to our customers. We deliver on that promise by striving to create technology that is accessible to everyone—regardless of age or ability.
Interoperability
> Microsoft Open Source
The Microsoft open source strategy is focused on helping customers and partners be successful in today's heterogeneous technology world. This includes increasing opportunities for business partners regardless of the underlying development model. In addition, it includes increasing opportunities for developers to learn and create by combining community-oriented open source with traditional commercial approaches to software development.
> Microsoft Interoperability
Microsoft is committed to solving the real-world interoperability challenges of our customers, developers, partners, and independent software providers, through innovative products, community engagement, technology access, and support for technology standards.
> Interoperability and Microsoft: Then and Now
A white paper (PDF) by Mark Lange, Senior Policy Counsel for Microsoft on the link between interoperability and Microsoft. He discusses Microsoft’s experience over the last decade, through the legal process, the marketplace interaction, and the continuous evolution of technology, and how it had led to a wider understanding and appreciation of interoperability needs and better practices across the entire IT industry.
> Interoperability Brochure
Discusses Interoperability's role for governments and companies today who are challenged to do more with less, who are met with rising expectations for better services, and who are expected to respond swiftly to a dynamic world. Organizations depend on information technology to help achieve these goals while enabling work to occur more seamlessly across different platforms, applications and environments.
> Collaborative effort
Fostering better collaboration is difficult, particularly in the complex field of information technology. But the recession could give the agenda a boost. For a fascinating round table discussion about interoperability in the UK Public Sector please go to http://network.civilservicelive.com/pg/pages/view/266844/
> Rising to the interoperability challenge
The ability to connect government agencies and getting the pieces of the technology puzzle to work across organisations and across platforms to help people connect and deliver services to citizens is achievable, and was the topic of a recent roundtable discussion between politicians, government officials and representatives of the IT community, hosted in the House of Commons, focused on the challenges and opportunities for interoperability:http://www.epolitix.com/latestnews/article-detail/newsarticle/rising-to-the-interoperability-challenge-microsoft-advertorial/
Child Online Safety
> Microsoft Online Safety
Help children stay safe online with a mix of supervision, technology, and skills
> Microsoft Protect
The internet offers Europe’s children tremendous educational and social benefits, but may also expose them to harm. If parents are to trust their children to the web they need to know that they are safe. We pursue integrated action — raising awareness of law enforcement and technology solutions that can help to reduce the risks faced by children online.
> Filtering Facts
Filtering Facts is dedicated promoting online safety technologies. Filtering Facts contains hundreds of filtering product reviews and product tests, research papers, and legal documents related to Internet filtering, as well as the latest news on online safety technologies.
> Safer Internet Forum
The Forum will be open for stakeholders from NGOs, governments, researchers, industry representatives, including Internet Service Providers, mobile network operators, social networking sites, software developers.
Privacy
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Data Protection Day
Young people aged between 15 and 19 years olds are invited to take part in the Data Protectioncompetition organised to celebrate Data Protection Day on 28 January 2010. The competition will run from 1 October 2009 to 5 January 2010.
> International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy
The 31st International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Authorities will be a meeting point for authorities responsible for guaranteeing privacy, private organisations – mainly large multinationals and companies in the technology sector – experts on the subject from every continent, as well as representatives of international institutions and representatives of civil society.
> Microsoft Privacy Principles
The extensive interconnection of computers and users today means that there are more ways than ever to intrude on people—as with adware or spam—or to monitor behavior and obtain sensitive information—as with spyware or identity theft.
> Privacy for Government Officials and Policymakers
Portal for government officials and policymakers on information and guidance on current privacy issues and topics such as cloud computing as well as materials and resources on privacy designed to help inform and protect the public.
Security
> Microsoft Trustworthy Computing
Microsoft’s approach to this environment is Trustworthy Computing, a long-term, collaborative effort to create and deliver secure, private, and reliable computing experiences for everyone. Microsoft formed Trustworthy Computing in January 2002, when Bill Gates committed the company to fundamentally changing its mission and strategy in the key areas of Security, Privacy, Reliability, and Business Practices.
> Microsoft Security
The internet can act as a platform for Europe’s innovation and imagination, but only if public confidence is maintained and cybercrime tackled effectively.
> Roger's Security Blog
Roger Halbheer is Chief Security Advisor of Microsoft EMEA. Roger leads a team of national Chief Security Advisors who work with organizations in the commercial and public sectors - including national governments, law enforcement and intelligence agencies - on information technology issues and strategies surrounding security.