Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd has forged a strategic alliance with Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd for venturing into the web conferencing market.
Microsoft Corporation India on Thursday announced the launch of its third IT Academy in the state of Karnataka.
Microsoft, which spends nearly $7 billion annually for product innovation and research, is already present in the country with two research centres--in Hyderabad and Bangalore. The Hyderabad centre, established as early as 1998 and known as Microsoft India Development Center, has nearly 1,400 developers, who are working on more than 50 different Microsoft projects.
As part of its efforts to encourage development of IT applications in Indian languages, software major Microsoft Corporation India has launched 'Indic Developer Challenge', a nation wide contest aimed at budding local language developers in engineer
The catch is the need for a supportive framework in place that allows free and fair use of such technology.
Microsoft Corporation India Private Limited on Wednesday announced the signing of a comprehensive memorandum of understanding with the Government of Maharashtra.
An initiative of Nandan Nilekani's EkStep Foundation, people+ai on Tuesday unveiled its vision for the future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in India, dubbed 'Adbhut India' (Amazing India). It aims to harness AI as a powerful tool to enhance the lives of all Indians. The event marked the rollout of several initiatives by people+ai that are focused on discovering, demonstrating, and disseminating population-scale AI use cases for India.
We are not pursuing AI to beat humans at games. We are pursuing AI so that we can empower every person and every institution that people build, said Nadella
The online service division of Microsoft Corp, MSN on Tuesday appointed Jaspreet Bindra as the country manager of its Indian arm.
Microsoft simply lacks Nokia's retail and supply chain experience in the Finnish company's most important markets.
The Microsoft Corporation India on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding with the Punjab Government for jointly developing and deploying an array of technology for e-governance in the state.
The software giant will also help build last-mile capacity among educators.
The West Bengal government said it was ready to provide all kinds of support for development of the IT industry.
India-born Gurdeep Singh Pall as the corporate vice-president Real Time Collaboration Group, Microsoft.
"Our partnership with Nokia is an important step forward ... The key there is not only to innovate on software, which we will work together over time, but also work on next- generation hardware innovations with them," Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer said.
Microsoft Corporation and HCL Infosystems on Friday announced a series of joint initiatives, including launch of world's cheapest ultra portable laptop and setting up of a centre of excellence, which will employ over 500 professionals. Priced at Rs 16,990, MiLeap brand of HCL laptops with Microsoft Windows XP Home operating system is the lowest priced among the MS operating system powered laptops, the company officials said.
The phone has some interesting features, and should be able to attract Windows-based phone users' attention who are on a budget, says Himanshu Juneja.
Microsoft is all set to roll out Windows 2008 in 200 cities across the globe and 20 cities in India on Thursday.
Microsoft Corporation India Private Limited on Friday announced the formal launch of its first IT Academy in Karnataka.
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The two companies have received most of the required regulatory approvals, including clearances from the European Commission and the US Department of Justice.
'As a cricketer, you have to hit refresh literally at the end of the every series. Challenges from one series to another are different'
Executive Satya Nadella appears most likely to be named Microsoft's new CEO but the name of another India-born technology executive is doing the rounds as a candidate for the top job, a report said.
Microsoft, like many tech firms, is not a model of diversity.
Last week, Nokia offered financial help to employees who wished to explore opportunities elsewhere
The new Surface Pro an impressive upgrade over its predecessors, says Aparna Banerjea.
'We are looking at the next target which is to be a $1 billion ARR firm in the next 4-5 years.'
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on Friday had a private meeting with senior officials of his company in Chennai for about two hours.
Microsoft has bought 10 per cent stake in TCS China, a joint venture promoted by India's largest IT services firm Tata Consultancy Services and three state-owned Chinese companies.
In webcast address to India, Microsoft CEO says Azure seeing 'incredible' momentum here, with technology adaption racing in unprecedented ways.
They wanted to learn about the set-up and support entrepreneur there.
Adobe has a lineage of 10 years (in India) in delivering the best communication experience to its customers
It would be used to fund research in wireless communications for a period of five years.
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On March 14, the Supreme Court had ordered Nokia India to give Rs 3,500 crore (Rs 35 billion) as guarantee before it transfers the plant to Microsoft.
Microsoft Corporation (India) Pvt Ltd has entered Chandigarh with the opening of its service hub here,its first to the north of Delhi.
India's top software firm Tata Consultancy Services on Monday signed a shareholders' agreement with three Chinese firms and Microsoft, to invest $15 million (nearly Rs 70 crore) for floating a software joint venture in China.
Microsoft Corporation India on Monday announced that Project Shiksha, the company's initiative to accelerate IT literacy among government school teachers and students, has trained 200,000 teachers till date.
Nadella advised the start-up community to learn from the failures
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