Companies now require more than just academic marks; they seek students with internship experience or extra certification courses.
In what could be a big strategy to boost its product sales in the country by tapping the largest buyer, software major Microsoft said on Thursday that it is in discussions with the Indian government to share its source code.
The year-long alliance will support Assam's School Education System to use ICT towards improving the quality of learning in schools by recreating more interactive classroom experiences, official sources said in Guwahati on Thursday.
As part of strengthening its presence in India, software major Microsoft Corporation on Wednesday said it would open offices in six cities in the country.
IT company Microsoft Corporation India on Tuesday flagged off a series of five-city e-governance seminars, targeted at bureaucrats and government officials.
The government asked digital platforms to provide technical and business process solutions to prevent and weed out misinformation that can potentially harm society and democracy, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has said.
Microsoft CEO holds all-hands-meet with India employees, reiterates thrust on 'mobile-first, cloud-first' strategy
Microsoft has had great success with Office 365, with over 1,200 customer win-backs over the last year and a half against Google apps.
Finnish phone maker Nokia may have to exclude its Chennai plant from the $7.2 billion deal with Microsoft if tax issues facing the India unit are not resolved by next week.
The phone has the ability to store up to 6,000 songs on a 32 GB memory card.
Microsoft Corp, the world's biggest software maker, may move some customer-service jobs to India, according to a Bloomberg report from Sanfransico.
Microsoft will stop technical support for its most popular operating system (OS) Windows XP globally from Tuesday, bringing down curtains on the software giant's longest running OS.
The sub-$100 smartphone market is dominated by Google's Android operating system, which has lower licensing costs, and runs cheaper hardware.
Mainstream American newspapers, many of which had been sceptical of India's space mission and sometimes even made fun of it through cartoons, noted the great Indian achievement.
India has potential to emerge as the global competency centre for cloud services.
Software giant Microsoft on Wednesday said it plans to provide a unique e-mail id for every Indian, which will be powered by Windows Live Hotmail through a new feature called custom domains.
The high court court on Thursday accepted Nokia's appeal to release its local factory after its seizure by authorities in a tax dispute, removing a hurdle for the sale of the company's mobile phone business to Microsoft.
The Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, has taken strong objection to the fact that despite a "No" to OOXML by a majority of the Bureau of Indian Standardsmembers, the software giant "continued to make representations to the top Indian leadership (read Ministry of Consumer Affairs), pressuring them to change the Indian vote".
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.
About 50 per cent of respondents said they spent close to five hours on the Internet daily.
Nokia-Microsoft transfer deal transaction is now subject only to certain customary closing conditions.
The second edition of the Microsoft Corporate Challenge began in Kochi on Friday with 34 teams from across India, representing various companies, including Infosys, Microsoft, Reliance Capital and Pepsi Foods, participating in the three-day event.
"The chance to play so much cricket surprised me," said Prabhu, a senior program manager at Microsoft Corp.'s automotive business. "There is someone in almost every business team at Microsoft that I've played cricket with."
Microsoft in association with Nasscom announced on Friday three teams of student innovators from India, of which one will compete at the worldwide finals of 'Imagine Cup' in August at Seoul, Korea for a prize money of $1,70,000 (about Rs 76,50,000).
Can the launch of smartphones under its own brand name by Finnish company HMD Global - despite having a licence to use the Nokia brand which it bought from Microsoft - help it regain its once dominant position in the mobile phone sweepstakes in India, where it was once routed? In 2009, Nokia was the country's largest MNC with revenues of $4 billion and a market share touching 80 per cent in 2010. After this, its fortunes fell. Although it had been the first global player to set up an assembly plant, not only to assemble phones for the local market but for exports, it had to shut down operations in 2014.
Microsoft Corp is betting a mix of old and young blood will revive the aging technology pioneer, but new Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella may find it tough to push change with co-founder Bill Gates and former CEO Steve Ballmer breathing down his neck.
The external affairs minister said the SAARC is in trouble as one of its members has been supporting terrorism.
The average salary received by students during campus placements for 2021-2022 was Rs 21.48 lakh per annum. The highest salary offered was $250,000.
As per Microsoft's work trend index report, most Indian employees felt that their employers are too demanding and their workload has increased significantly.
Mantras from a successful professional on how young Indians can become more successful and employable.
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 device is being labelled as the phone for 'selfies and skype'.
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.
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.
The decision to shut down the Chennai plant will reduce valuation of Nokia for Microsoft
The Redmond-based company had announced in January that it would axe 5,000 jobs globally amid the ongoing slowdown.
IT Minister Dayanidhi Maran on Monday took a dig at software major Microsoft saying the poor computer adoption in India was due to the 'high priced' software, while the MNC claimed that it has already reduced the price of one of its entry level opera
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