Many public-sector computer systems are unsafe, intrusive, ineffective or even unlawful.
Now the bot-herders have learned to commandeer huge corporate or public-sector computers in America.
Some £200m has been spent by the public sector on the computer giant's Office suite alone since 2010.
The FBI said that "the targeting of public and private sector computer networks remains a significant threat".. Previously, Sony has said the firm was investigating the "IT matter".
Guruduth Banavar, vice president and chief technology officer of the global public sector unit at I.B.M., said computer algorithms helped to analyze complicated data that the human brain alone cannot sort through.
Edinburgh council is the latest public sector organisation to introduce tablet computers to help improve processes.
The parlous state of Russian public finances meant there were precious few new orders from the public sector, the main buyer of foreign computers; the market growth came in sales to households, which opted for Russian brands.
Resources are another problem: there are fewer computers in the public sector than in the private because many government departments still do not distinguish capital budgets from operating ones.Mr Christensen thinks one of the main problems is the lack of a common language.
Asah and others have reported low access to and use of computers by nurses in the public sector [ 8].
Mr. Kraft pledged to support life science research and described how Massachusetts had lost its competitive edge in computer technology to California because "the public sector in California embraced high tech and the public sector in Massachusetts disregarded it".
Keys to this financial report will be sales into the government and public sector and the company's efforts to sell more computers through retail stores.
