Peter Grant, the Queensland Government's former chief information officer, has left Microsoft after just 16 months with the software giant.
Queensland's massive Exchange 2007 consolidation will finally move ahead with a pilot in August after the state election and department consolidations caused delays, according to a state estimates hearing on Tuesday.
The Queensland Department of Education will be installing Windows 7 on all of its computers within the next 12 months.
The Queensland Government has signed a whole of government memorandum of understanding with Microsoft for the future purchase of software and services from the Redmond-based giant.
The University of Queensland has moved 70,000 email accounts to a hosted Microsoft Exchange platform, with plans to complete 170,000 more in the next few months.
Patch Monday makes its timely return and is armed with another week of stories, interviews and rumours to digest.
If I was Alan Chapman, the acting executive director of the Queensland Government Chief Information Office, I'd be really irate right now.
Spend enough time in the IT industry and you'll soon realise that many of the new trends we see are cyclical: fat vs. thin clients; various development methodologies falling in and out of fashion; and shared vs. distributed services.
The equivalent of an electronic tidal wave -- originating from the Microsoft campus in Redmond -- hammered the ZDNet Australia servers earlier this week.
This week I learned about a "trick" that you can do in Windows which, as far as I am concerned, is a serious security risk.
Australia's IT industry needs to follow the example laid down in Queensland this week and band together to lobby for more government support instead of individual firms fruitlessly pushing their own campaigns.
The Central Queensland University's realisation that its e-mail database was set to surpass the one terabyte mark has finally motivated the IT team to take proactive measures.
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The Bank of Queensland is in the midst of a $480 million outsourcing partnership with EDS which has seen the bank's profits double in the last three years.
Non-profit organisations are keen to take advantage of emerging technologies such as social networking for fundraising and software as a service for administration, but a lack of perceived support options is keeping them away from open source software and focused on traditional providers such as Microsoft.
Detective Inspector Brian Hay, who heads up the Queensland Police Corporate Crime Investigation Group, reveals that hundreds and possibly thousands of Australians have fallen victim to the infamous Nigerian 419 scam.
Microsoft wants customers to "overcome their fear" regarding security and proceed with wireless implementations.
Microsoft has used its Tech Ed conference for its first Australian public showing of its Xbox Live Internet gaming service, but the launch hasn't been without its glitches.
How long will it be before your computer is able to read your facial expressions? Will a rude gesture become the next Control-Alt-Delete? ZDNet Australia investigates computing interfaces.
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