Tag: Microsoft

Victoria launches online vaccine booking platform

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Eligible Victorians can now book in to receive the COVID-19 vaccination using a Microsoft online booking platform the state government purchased for nearly $6 million more than five months...

Victoria’s $6m Microsoft vaccine platform delays

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Victoria’s online vaccination booking platform is still not in use despite the state government purchasing the system from Microsoft in mid-January for nearly $6 million. The Victorian government bought...

Feud 2.0: Google and Microsoft fight heats up

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Google has returned fire at Microsoft after the Redmond-based behemoth singled out the search and advertising giant in calls for more technology and media regulation in the United States. Microsoft’s...

Vic’s buy $6m Microsoft vaccine platform

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Victorian government has paid tech giant Microsoft nearly $6 million to use its COVID-19 vaccination management platform, with the vaccine rollout set to start next week. The Microsoft...

Google, Facebook actions a threat to democracy

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Microsoft has doubled down on its support for Australia’s media bargaining code, labelling Facebook and Google’s threats to withdraw services from the country as a “new vulnerability for the...

Deloitte payday for new jobseeker platform

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Deloitte will be paid more than $1 million for six months of work on the federal government’s new digital platform for job seekers, joining a number of other large...

It’s not about the news: It’s techno politics

Posted on   |  by Marie Johnson
I am forced to live in two parallel worlds. One world is served by an expensive and unreliable NBN where on the weekend in Canberra the speed was 18Mbps...

Bing! Microsoft ‘fully supports’ Big Tech-media code

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Microsoft has thrown its full support behind the federal government’s media bargaining code, positioning its own search service as able to fill the void left by Google’s proposed withdrawal...