Ron Ridderbusch, a fixture in State of California IT circles for almost 30 years, has announced that he is leaving Microsoft after 14 years with the Redmond giant. Ron was a great colleague and tremendous asset as my chief deputy at the Department of Information […]
Ron Ridderbusch leaving Microsoft
Microsoft expanding IT training program for active-duty service members
Microsoft is expanding its IT training program for active-duty service members to Camp Pendleton, Calif., and Fort Hood, Texas, the tech giant announced July 28. Microsoft introduced the program in November for service members looking for jobs outside the military. Professors from Saint Martin’s University […]
What’s this: Senate President Steinberg Outing Microsoft State Business over Kings’ Sale
Have to file this under the theme of unintended consequences. Not to mention rather odd… Senator Darrell Steinberg whom I flew to DC with this week is expressing his displeasure at the reported Sacramento Kings sale to a Seattle group which includes Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer […]
State of Washington has a new CIO, from a familiar source.
First, former Microsoft exec becomes Federal CIO, now State of Washington has a Redmond veteran as well. Former Microsoft GM Bharat Shyam named state CIO
Former Microsoft Exec Named as new Federal CIO
Early rumors about President Obama’s appointment of a Microsoft executive to replace Vivek Kundra as the federal Chief Information Officer caused quite the titillation here in Sacramento last week. The state and vendor IT community here had speculated that one of our own, former Chief […]
California Enterprise eMail Awarded to CSC-Microsoft, Setting up War of the CSC hosted Cloud vs State Data Center hosted eMail
The long awaited State of California enterprise email contract was officially signed last week ending more than a year of state planning and procurement activity to consolidate over 100 email systems for its over 200,000 state users. The somewhat tortuous path finally led to a […]