We will make public services agile, flexible and digital by default, says Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude

Government departments will have to consider open source when choosing suppliers

The government is promoting a pragmatic approach to open source software

Microsoft and other tech giants have moved the Microsoft Open Data Protocol to the OASIS standards body

Open source expert's Microsoft involvement takes consultation back to square one

Microsoft is seeking to deepen its interaction with open source communities with the creation of a new subsidiary

Cisco has accused the EC of not being circumspect about the interoperability implications of Microsoft's Skype acquisition

The views of the IT community on what open standards should mean in government ICT are being sought in a new consultation

A fresh consultation will aim to clarify the government's position on open standards

Polycom is adding Cisco's Telepresence Interoperability Protocol standard to its UC Intelligent Core platform