Considering the challenges citizens and their governments face every day -- school funding, healthcare and unemployment, to name a few -- the promise of integrated computer systems delivering better and improved public services is rarely a high profile issue. Yet in that very promise of up-to-date and integrated IT infrastructure lie many promising solutions to help governments and educational institutions address those broader challenges that are top of mind public concerns.
Microsoft recently formed a new business group, called Microsoft U.S. Public Sector, to better work with the public sector and to strengthen customer and partner outreach in the education and government markets. As part of the move, the company named Linda Zecher vice president of the Washington, D.C.-based business group.
PressPass spoke to Zecher to learn more about why Microsoft formed U.S. Public Sector and how the company plans to work more closely with and address the technology needs of the government and education community.
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