About 50 per cent of respondents said they spent close to five hours on the Internet daily.
Mantras from a successful professional on how young Indians can become more successful and employable.
The software giant will also help build last-mile capacity among educators.
The Delhi High Court on Monday refused to provide relief to Microsoft India on a duty demand of Rs 260 crore (Rs 2.6 billion) by the government for alleged violation of service tax norms.
The service tax department had issued notice to Microsoft India in September 2008 demanding Rs 400 crore (Rs 4 billion), which consisted of a duty demand of Rs 255 crore and interest on the amount for three years, over an alleged tax evasion for services provided by the company to its sister concern in Singapore.
Nearly 45 per cent of this value is likely to be delivered by 3 sectors - consumer goods and retail, agriculture and banking and insurance, the Nasscom report said.
Anandan, also an investor in multiple start-ups, is slated to join venture fund Sequoia Capital.
"Live Search Maps for India will allow users to search for geographical information, places of general interest and business listings both on the PC and on mobile phones," said Microsoft India Consumer and Online Marketing Operations Head Rishi Srivastava. Microsoft's map services will offer detailed listings and street maps for nine cities, business listings across 29 cities and access to highway networks to 20,000 cities and towns.
Microsoft India Pvt Ltd would make available its office suites, including Office 2003 and Windows 2003, in all 14 Indian official languages in the next three years
According to sources, Nadella will be visiting New Delhi on September 30 to take part in two events to be organised by Nasscom.
Schmidt had a closed-door meeting with four start-ups in Bangalore.
SMC will work with Microsoft and its partners to bring solutions for water management and urban planning
If you look at the interface of Windows 8, we believe it is a lot more exciting and informative, which people would actually love to spend time on. Other than making Windows open to the vast storehouse of exciting applications, Windows 8 enables multi-tasking.
"In a year dominated by political chaos and bluster, it was a rare brand of steady -- even quiet -- leadership that won the day in the business world. And no one epitomises that brand of obsessively results-driven, team-based leadership more than our new No. 1 Businessperson of the Year," Fortune said.
Microsoft India employees have developed a technology that would help the hearing and speech impaired to communicate with others.
Technology giant Microsoft is in talks with TikTok's parent company ByteDance to buy its US operation.
Global software giant Microsoft intends to tap the growing cloud computing market here. Sanket Akerkar, managing director of Microsoft India, says he's seeing an uptick in its adoption by enterprises, to become competitive.
The device is a tablet that can transform into a full-fledged laptop with the blink of an eye.
The development comes amid Japan's SoftBank booking an investment loss of 39.28 billion yen (USD 350 million) on its investments in India, including those in Ola and e-commerce company Snapdeal.
Venkatesan has decided to pursue opportunities outside Microsoft, Microsoft said in a statement.
'We have close to 30 per cent share of the Indian public cloud market'
Google is the most attracitve employer in India followed by Sony
Cloud computing facilitates sharing of technological resources, software and digital information.
The catch is the need for a supportive framework in place that allows free and fair use of such technology.
Microsoft sees significant adoption in industries such as banking and financial services.
In a major setback to Infosys Technologies, the company announced that Mohandas Pai, the member of board of the company has decided to resign. Meanwhile, Infosys -- India's second largest software services exports firm -- posted a net profit rise of 17.1% y-o-y to Rs 1,818 crore (Rs 18.18 billion) in its net profit for the fourth quarter ended March 31, 2011 as compared to Rs 1,600 crore (Rs 16 billion) in the corresponding quarter a year ago.
The 3-year partnership to set up a pan India initiative to catalyse the country's technology startup ecosystem was signed today by R A Mashelkar, Chairman, GenNext Ventures and Board Member, RIL, and Bhaskar Pramanik, Chairman, Microsoft India.
The Bangalore team will focus on product development and applied research in web search and online ad technologies.
India has potential to emerge as the global competency centre for cloud services.
The Microsoft-TCS virtualisation CoE is a joint initiative by the companies to accelerate the adoption of virtualisation technology in India, TCS said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange on Tuesday. Virtualisation is the creation of a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, such as an operating system, a server, a storage device or network resources. This helps companies in cutting costs and optimising resources.
The layoffs are expected to be across different locations and businesses. Sources said the number of possible lay-offs could be close to 800.
Recession here is not as drastic as what you might see in the developed world because the hole that is dug is not that deep in countries like India; thus, they can recover much quicker, says S Somasegar.
Jeanne Sheldon, corporate vice-president (office authoring solutions), Microsoft talks about the vast opportunities of mobile business.
The Hyderabad Garage will collaborate with teams in Silicon Valley, Redmond, Vancouver, Washington, New England, Israel and Beijing.
The Micosoft CEO is scheduled to have a breakfast meeting with Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister.
It is not clear which groups of the Indian operations have been affected by the cuts which are learnt to have been carried out across diverse functions. However, a company source said that a sizeable number of Microsoft's sales and support personnel in Hyderabad and a few in Bangalore were among those affected. The Response Windows team has also been dismantled completely, the source claimed.
This building, the third in the campus at Gachibowli on the outskirts of the city, has been constructed to meet global quality standards and can house more than 2000 employees, Microsoft officials said.
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