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White House hires ex-Microsoft exec as technology chief
US PRESIDENT Barack Obama has appointed ex-Microsoft executive Steven Van Roekel as the US federal government Chief Information Officer
Van Roekel worked at Microsoft for fifteen years before leaving in 2009, and he will replace the outgoing Vivek Kundra who is leaving to become a fellow at Harvard University.
The hiring was announced in a White House blog, where predictably Van Roekel was credited in advance for the changes he would make to the federal government's information technology policy.
"Steve is the right person to continue our efforts to make the government more efficient and more responsive to the America people," said Jack Lew, director of the White House's Office of Management and Budget.
"Under his leadership, I am confident that we will continue to build on the remarkable gains that we have made in changing the way the federal government manages IT."
The ex-Microsoft executive is expected to do more with less, apparently, which is ironic since traditionally that is the opposite of what Microsoft products do.
Van Roekel then, "is at the center of our efforts to save money, eliminate waste, and do more with less," burbled Lew, in a burst of optimism.
We wish Van Roekel the best of luck in his difficult new role. µ
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No company better exemplifies the abuse of the work visas than Microsoft. Over the past several years, Microsoft has led the tech industry in layoffs. Those layoffs were necessary to make room for the H1B visa recipients that Microsoft imported. Plus Microsoft led all US companies in importing H1B workers.
While all of this was happening, the value of Microsoft stock has underperformed the stock of most tech companies. And Microsoft stock has underperformed the broader averages of NASDAQ and the S&P.
Yes those darn tea partiers wanting the politicians to be accountable for the money they spend can easily be equated to killing innocent civilians. They should have unlimited credit and be allowed to promise whatever they need to get re-elected. To restrict such basic freedom is definitely terrorism.
""Van Roekel then, "is at the center of our efforts to save money, eliminate waste, and do more with less," burbled Lew, in a burst of optimism.""
That means all you network administrators working for the U.S. government had better polish your resumes, because the network is about to be outsourced to the Microsoft. Microsoft already has a lock on the federal governments software for desktop, email, and servers. It is natural progression for them to take over the administration. After all who knows their products better?
Microsoft seems to be stealing a page from the Goldman-Sachs play book. MS executives are appearing in some pivotal positions that potentially effect the procurement of large I.T. contracts. You have Stephen Elop at Nokia and Steven Van Roekel as CIO of the entire U.S. government. As CIO Steven will have major influence (is dictate too strong a word) over all I.T. contracts for federal agencies and the U.S. military. We are talking about the largest purchaser of I.T. in the world.
It is a done deal. You better backup the truck and load up the Microsoft stock before it sky rockets to the moon.
I discounted Elop's move to Nokia, but all bets are off. The vole is rolling out a plan for world domination.
The USA survived the GOP's debit ceiling terror attack, but can it survive the ex-Microsoft exec attack. For geeks a sure sign a company is going down is to see it partner with MS. So often that partnership starts with hiring an ex-MS exec. Is the same true for a government? Who will live longer, Nokia or the USA?
They must have thought "If there are any guys that can sell shit as gold, it must be them."