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
As per Microsoft's work trend index report, most Indian employees felt that their employers are too demanding and their workload has increased significantly.
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.
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.
'We are looking at the next target which is to be a $1 billion ARR firm in the next 4-5 years.'
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.
In the first part of our series on Women's Day we present Chitra Sood, staffing director at the Microsoft India Development Center. Here are her thoughts on Women's Day, the secrets to her success and her advice to young girls just starting out on their careers.
Gartner expects manufacturers like Samsung to launch a whole range of budget devices that will drive Android into mass market segments.
Companies now require more than just academic marks; they seek students with internship experience or extra certification courses.
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.
According to sources, Nadella will be visiting New Delhi on September 30 to take part in two events to be organised by Nasscom.
In the first major realignment of workforce since India-born Satya Nadella took over as CEO, Microsoft has announced slashing of up to 18,000 jobs worldwide by next year as the software giant attempts to sharpen focus on cloud and mobile offerings.
Nokia Lumia 630 will soon be launched in India.
World's largest e-tailer Amazon is evaluating setting up a data centre in India to tap into the multi-billion cloud opportunity in India.
Microsoft on Thursday announced the roll-out of fourth round of funding under its 'Unlimited Potential - Project Jyoti' programme that seeks to impart IT skills in village communities to help them improve their earning potential.
Microsoft's new search engine, bing.com, automatically censors certain sex-related terms when the user's 'country location' is set as India.
Google is the most attracitve employer in India followed by Sony
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 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
Amazon Web Services (AWS) will invest nearly $4.4 billion (Rs 36,000 crore) in India by 2030 and support more than 48,000 jobs externally through a new regional service launched on Tuesday, said the on-demand Cloud computing company. AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) is the company's second infrastructure region in India, six years after it opened its first Cloud region in Mumbai in 2016. The Hyderabad region will give customers access to AWS technologies for data analytics, security, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.
Nokia said that due to an ongoing tax dispute with Indian authorities, it would operate the Chennai factory as a contract manufacturing unit for Microsoft.
The external affairs minister said the SAARC is in trouble as one of its members has been supporting terrorism.
Anandan, also an investor in multiple start-ups, is slated to join venture fund Sequoia Capital.
Jeanne Sheldon, corporate vice-president (office authoring solutions), Microsoft talks about the vast opportunities of mobile business.
Linux has over 300 variants, of which the offerings from Red Hat and Novell are the most popular because the firms provide support and maintenance -- the OS is free.
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.
YouTuber Prajakta Koli announced her engagement to boyfriend Vrishank Khanal.
India's sprawling digital public infrastructure received a glowing endorsement from billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates on Wednesday as he praised the country's "great" digital network, reliable and low-cost connectivity, and said this will be the cheapest 5G market. Under the G20 presidency of India, a session on 'Building resilient and inclusive economies- the Promise of Digital Public Infrastructure' was held on Wednesday in New Delhi, where the Microsoft co-founder spoke of India's digital identity Aadhaar, its payment infrastructure, and rapid strides that the country has taken in bringing more people into formal banking system. "India in particular, by laying the groundwork for digital public infrastucture starting with identity system, allows people to build on top of that.
Microsoft Corp launched on Tuesday its instant messaging service, MSN Messenger 6.0, in India, saying it contained more powerful customisation and collaboration features to make internet communication more personalised.\n\n\n\n
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