Microsoft has also approached other big online publishers to persuade them to remove their sites from Google's search engine
As Gates plans his transition, Ray Ozzie (founder of Lotus Notes and Groove Virtual Office) has assumed the position of chief software architect and Craig Mundie has taken the new title of chief research and strategy officer.
The estimated retail price for Windows Vista Home basic edition is now at Rs 4,000 while Windows Vista home premium is available at Rs 5,300 and Windows Vista ultimate at Rs 11,500, the company said.Traditionally, most customers buy the windows operating system as a part of a new PC purchase, it said. However, with the boom in the Indian retail segment and an increasing inclination to buy original software, there is a growing uptake for retails packs.
He replaces Mark Pincus, the founder of the company.
Software giant Microsoft's new operating system, Windows 7, will be available in the market by Christmas 2009, the company's chief executive officer Steve Ballmer said on Wednesday.
Companies push out warnings to PCs infected with Bamital.
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd and Microsoft were selected as strategic partners by Sino-India Cooperative Office of China to set up a software joint venture company for IT outsourcing services and solutions to both global and domestic market.
While Modi was given this t-shirt by Biden, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Chairman of Mahindra Group, Anand Mahindra, Apple CEO Tim Cook and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar could be seen at the event, amongst many others.
The Redmond-based company had announced in January that it would axe 5,000 jobs globally amid the ongoing slowdown.
Hyderabad-based JP Mobile, provider of enterprise mobile messaging and security software, on Thursday announced its partnership with Microsoft to expand the capabilities and service offerings of hosted exchange service providers.
Microsoft chairman and CEO Satya Nadella on Tuesday said there is a tremendous momentum in cloud adoption, as he termed cloud a "big game changer". Nadella, who is currently in India, addressed Microsoft Future Ready Leadership Summit in Mumbai on Tuesday. He is also scheduled to visit Delhi and Bengaluru this week, and will be meeting key customers, startups, developers, educators and students during his India visit.
Can Microsoft, the fiercest predator in the software jungle, really change its spots
Gates says he wants to spend more time on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Microsoft had began offering a temporary patch for the problem on September 19.
He will look at early stage software, Internet, and tech companies.
The vulnerability affects customers using Office 2003 and Office 2007 as well as those running Office 2010 on Windows XP and Server 2003.
Microsoft will extend cash grant of $1,08,000 each to MS Swaminathan Research Foundation and Datamation Foundation Charitable Trust for setting up community technology learning centres in India.
Microsoft announced on Tuesday its entry into next generation video gaming and entertainment system by showcasing Xbox 360, to be launched later this year and will set up a retail network for its distribution across seven cities.
A detailed look at the promising Windows Phone from Microsoft
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.
Congress is keen to deploy Microsoft display technologies that enable projection into any surface including walls to interact with rural masses from its headquarters in Delhi, a top official of the software giant's Indian entity said on Thursday.
The estimated retail prices of Microsoft Office XP business suite in India would be lesser now by about 15 per cent following the company's decision to extend the price reductions for these products to Asia-Pacific countries.
Chitra Sood, staffing director at Microsoft India Development Centre, talks about opportunities available to young graduates and interns at MSIDC.
Microsoft India employees have developed a technology that would help the hearing and speech impaired to communicate with others.
The department found that Microsoft India's Gurgoan unit carried out marketing activities for its India operations and not for the Singapore unit as it had claimed in its reply to a show cause notice served by the department earlier. Microsoft officials, however, said they have not received any official communication from the tax department in this regard.
Internet's second most popular search engine Yahoo! has said it was open to selling itself to Microsoft, but the software giant's chief executive Steven A Ballmer and his deal makers were not keen to negotiate and ultimately withdrew their proposal. Microsoft had offered to buy Yahoo, second only to Google, for $31 a share, or $44.6 billion, in February, but the search engine felt it was worth more.
Justice Suresh Kait set aside the trial court order for initiating criminal proceedings against the website.
Three students of a Mumbai institute won the award for a software solution for the healthcare industry to empower doctors and surgeons to diagnose and treat patients more efficiently.
Flipkart, the e-commerce company owned by Walmart, is intensifying its efforts to achieve profitability as it is eyeing a valuation of approximately $60 billion at the time of its initial public offering (IPO), now planned in 2025-2026, instead of this year, according to people familiar with the matter. The firm might consider listing in the US or any other geography, including India. The company, which counts the likes of Amazon and Reliance's JioMart among its competitors in India's burgeoning e-commerce market, had also contemplated launching an IPO in 2022-2023.
Computer giant Microsoft has signed a $170-million, five-year contract with India's HCL for outsourcing work for its online business productivity suite.
In the US, Zoho gets close to 80 per cent of its revenue from small companies, while the remaining comes from large ones.
If Hewlett-Packard, the world's biggest PC maker, were to install Google's operating system on netbooks, Microsoft Windows could face strong competition
An intenet phone; it comes with 2.8-inch display and 2MP camera.
NIIT on Wednesday joined hands with Microsoft to launch an IT skills enrichment programme for faculty as well as students of engineering colleges and IT educational institutions.
Microsoft Corp, which plans to invest $400 million in India, is considering sharing the closely guarded source code of its Windows platform with its Indian clients, a company official said on Monday.
© 2026 Rediff.com - Investor Information - Advertise with us - Disclaimer - Privacy Policy - Sitemap - Feedback - About us - Terms of use - Grievances