Presentation on 'Microsoft - Platform View' by Michael Wignall, Microsoft UK, at the Local Digital Futures - Working as One: Platforms & Sharing event held on 4 March 2016 in London.

1. Microsoft – Platform View
 Microsoft Builds Platforms and Productivity Solutions for everyone in the world
 Our Partner Ecosystem AND our customers AND citizens; configure, customise, tailor, extend our
solutions to meet the specific needs of UK Local Government – can enable new business models
 Key Tech Principles to support Government as a Platform – work up the stack (plumbing)
 Flexibility of Infrastructure and ability to move clouds – Compute/Storage should be
commodities – standards need to support no lock-in.
 Identify/Authentication common across B2C, B2B and Internal – SAML/OpenID/LDAP
 Productivity/Collaboration tools should be interoperable – Doc/voice/video/IM (XMPP)
 Inherit underlying platform capabilities to build “functional” platforms with Open APIs
 Microsoft are transforming as a company to embrace “Openness”, for example:
 In our productivity suite – O365 supported on Windows, Mac, IOS and Android, plus increased
support for ODF document standards and Open APIs for Office
 In our cloud platform – Azure supports Linux, Hadoop, Mongo DB , Docker, etc.
 For our developers – we are making .Net Open Source and cross-platform