Public Accounts committee  We don't subcontract, so it would be contracted directly with us, and we have controls in place to make sure that people have the correct qualifications.

Public Accounts committee  Absolutely.

Public Accounts committee  We received advance notice from the Auditor General that we would be named in the report, and we were given the dollar value.

Public Accounts committee  No, we have not.

Public Accounts committee  Absolutely. Microsoft is a partner-driven company. We have 16,500 partners in Canada that build atop of a platform, so our business model is to enable Canadian organizations to build this type of capability.

Public Accounts committee  We don't build the—

Public Accounts committee  That's correct.

Public Accounts committee  Our partners would lead that. We would not lead that proposal. We're 100% reliant on partners to build on those specialized solutions.

Public Accounts committee  I can't answer for my partners.

Public Accounts committee  I'm not sure if it counts, but I was in uniform with the government from 1986 until 2000, I worked for Treasury Board until 2003 and I've been working at Microsoft for 20 years since then helping the government.

Public Accounts committee  No.

Public Accounts committee  No.

Public Accounts committee  There is no potential for Microsoft that this is the case.

Public Accounts committee  Certainly. We have absolutely no relationship with GC Strategies. Dalian is registered as a reseller of our surface hardware devices. That's why we believe our icon is on their website. However, we don't have any record of doing business with them. We did do extensive research on that.

Public Accounts committee  Certainly it could take longer than the six minutes we have available today. It is quite a challenging file that has been under way for many years. I will highlight a couple of things. One is that it's very challenging to keep up with the ever-increasing pace of technology. Government procurements have often envisioned a 10- to 20-year life cycle for equipment, and that's thinking about trucks or planes.