Mentions of Microsoft New Zealand in New Zealand Parliament debates
Microsoft New Zealand has been mentioned in 17 parliamentary debates since November 2005.
Finance
GDP Per Capita—Percentage Change Between June 2008 and June 2011 28 Sep 2011
Hon David Cunliffe The research unit has used Microsoft—
Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Bill
Second Reading 13 Apr 2011
JONATHAN YOUNG ... Of course we know that when we look at the Internet today, we can see the people who started Google, Facebook, and Microsoft. They were just going to university or were just out of university—and some of them were not even there—yet their ...
Securities Trustees and Statutory Supervisors Bill
In Committee 5 Apr 2011
Hon DAVID PARKER ... to describe risk to those people so they can take that decision. If they take that decision and it turns out to be Microsoft, they will be wealthy. If it turns out to be Fortex, Feltex, or a company like that, they will lose their money. ...
Smart Meters (Consumer Choice) Bill
First Reading 5 May 2010
AARON GILMORE Members might remember the issue of VHS versus Beta in the 1980s. They might remember Microsoft’s Internet Explorer versus Netscape in the 1990s. They might remember the recent thing about the Sony Blu-ray Disc ...
JOHN BOSCAWEN ... if we go back to the 1980s and 1990s, we go back to the debate between VHS and Beta. We go back to the debate between Microsoft and Netscape. One could have taken a gamble and decided which type of technology to pursue, but one would have made a ...
Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement 17 Feb 2010
MOANA MACKEY ... that I think they need to stage an intervention, get Parliamentary Service to remove the thesaurus function from Microsoft Word, and I think that his speeches will be all the better for it. I will not say anything mean about Shane Ardern, ...
Corrections (Contract Management of Prisons) Amendment Bill
In Committee 25 Nov 2009
MOANA MACKEY ... through them the red carpet is rolled out and they are shown everything they want to see. It is like when we get that Microsoft Windows demonstration software that is nothing like the real thing. When we finally purchase the real thing it is very,...
Protected Disclosures Amendment Bill
In Committee 29 Apr 2009
Hon PETE HODGSON ... of car on the salary we give you?”. Mr Swann’s reply was: “I’ve developed some software, which I have licensed to Microsoft. I am independently wealthy. I come to work because I love my job, not because I need it.” So the idea was born that ...
Statutes Amendment Bill (No 2) 2007
Second Reading 11 Mar 2008
TE URUROA FLAVELL ... option. Te Ara Poutama of Auckland University of Technology has trialled te reo Māori on an iPod. We can access Microsoft Office and Windows in te reo Māori. In other words, almost anything literally is possible. Speaking about te reo, I ...
NZ Security Intelligence Service
Government Computer Systems—Cyber Attacks 12 Sep 2007
Nandor Tanczos Why does the Government continue to rely on Microsoft products in Government departments and in Parliament when Microsoft is notoriously prone to security breaches; and ...
Education
Schools—Information and Communications Technology 4 Apr 2007
Hon STEVE MAHAREY I announced today that the Government will be spending $33 million over the next 4 years on contracts with Microsoft, Apple, IBM, and Novell to ensure the continued delivery to New Zealand schools of crucial software for ...
Taxation (Annual Rates, Savings Investment, and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill
In Committee 12 Dec 2006
GORDON COPELAND ... let us take a real-life illustration of the principle at work here. It is well known that for many, many years Microsoft paid no dividends—no dividends whatever. It would be patently absurd to argue, however, that the shareholders in ...
Unsolicited Electronic Messages Bill
Second Reading 5 Dec 2006
CHRIS AUCHINVOLE ... Council of Women, the New Zealand Law Society, the New Zealand Marketing Association, the Privacy Commissioner, Microsoft, the New Zealand Press Association, Telecom, Telstra, Vodafone, and a whole host of others all made submissions ...
GORDON COPELAND
... relationships.
The computer industry also needs to play its part. I was encouraged that after the executives of Microsoft New Zealand appeared before the select committee, they spontaneously called by my office to say that their interaction with the ...
... has greatly advanced the common good. As we also know, however, there is also a downside, and it is called spam. Microsoft, one of the organisations that gave evidence at the Commerce Committee on this bill, told us that 4 billion spam ...
Third Readings 23 Nov 2006
CHRIS TREMAIN ... the non-technical requirements. All of a sudden, they had thrust into their faces the fact that they might have to do Microsoft Word or PowerPoint courses. Many of those plumbers who had been in the profession for many years just could not see ...
GORDON COPELAND ... tests, when some of them had been registered as plumbers for 30 years or more, in areas such as how to use various Microsoft computer programmes. I can tell members that many of the old-timers said to us that it was all too hard. By gosh they ...
Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Bill
In Committee 21 Nov 2006
CHRIS TREMAIN ... the non-technical courses that the plumbers were—justifiably—concerned about. These included the likes of becoming a Microsoft Word user, for which people could get four continuing professional development points. They could get points for ...
Third Readings 22 Jun 2006
METIRIA TUREI ... and the UK the microchipping of people has the support of a number of major business leaders, including Bill Gates of Microsoft. But how does excluding only dogs involved with stock provide a principled basis for a crucial opposition to the ...
Local Government Law Reform Bill
In Committee 20 Jun 2006
SUE KEDGLEY ... into a genuine business strategy astonishingly quickly. The technology now has high-profile supporters, such as Microsoft chairman, Bill Gates; President Bush’s former health secretary; and so forth. Manufacturers standing to benefit from ...
Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement 21 Feb 2006
Hon LUAMANUVAO WINNIE LABAN ... of the Unlimited Potential Learning Foundation, which is a partnership between the Government, polytechnics, and Microsoft. It is a training programme aimed at lifting information technology skills amongst disadvantaged communities. I am ...