Microsoft embraces local tech guru

Microsoft is a powerful global software company valued more highly than any other. But its engagement with independent software vendors has been lacking and an Australian company says it has the solution.

The technology sector is overflowing with companies making outrageous claims about their “world firsts” that, on closer inspection, don’t stack up.

That’s why Chanticleer was sceptical when a tech entrepreneur in Sydney, John Orrock, claimed to have sealed a world-first venture capital partnership with Microsoft, the world’s biggest software company.