Computer Weekly Editors Blog

February 2014

• Now comes the acid test for the government's open standards policy

  Bryan Glick - Editor in chief 27 Feb 2014

The UK government's consultation on the use of open document formats has closed*, and we now wait for the acid test of the Cabinet Office commitment to open standards.The outcome of this process ...

• Thanks Microsoft - we now know that everybody prefers ODF to OOXML for government document standards

  Bryan Glick - Editor in chief 24 Feb 2014

Microsoft's call to its friends in the software community to contribute to the government's consultation on open document formats seems to have worked. Although, perhaps not as Microsoft intended. ...

• The lesson from the NHS Care.data row: You can't keep privacy issues private any more

  Bryan Glick - Editor in chief 18 Feb 2014

The rumbling, growing row over the NHS England Care.data service has become an instruction manual for how not to handle data privacy in the digital age.For anyone not aware of the issue, Care.data ...

• Coding for kids is great - but where do digital skills come from in the meantime?

  Bryan Glick - Editor in chief 14 Feb 2014

There has been a lot of discussion lately on the topic of teaching school children how to code. Some controversy has ensued - as ever - around some of the initiatives, but there is little ...

• No matter what else you think, Microsoft's new CEO is a safe hand for enterprise IT

  Bryan Glick - Editor in chief 07 Feb 2014

In the space of a few days, a chap called Satya Nadella has become the most written about individual in global IT. Even though few people outside the circle of journalists covering Microsoft had ...

• The question that matters on Universal Credit: Do you believe Iain Duncan Smith?

  Bryan Glick - Editor in chief 06 Feb 2014

Do you believe Iain Duncan Smith?This is becoming a key question in the progress of the troubled Universal Credit welfare reform programme. The secretary of state for work and pensions has staked ...