World Bank president Ajay Banga is among the Indians who have made it to the prestigious Times's list of 100 most influential people in the world released on Wednesday. Time's profile of the former Mastercard CEO, written by US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, said, "It's not easy to find a leader with the skill and drive to take on the monumental task of transforming an essential institution, but since becoming World Bank president last June, Ajay Banga has done just that." She said Banga comes to the World Bank after leading a global organisation through which he brought millions of unbanked people into the digital economy.
Microsoft Corporation (India) Pvt Ltd has entered Chandigarh with the opening of its service hub here,its first to the north of Delhi.
World's largest software company Microsoft today announced it would provide a suite of software at three dollars (a little over Rs 120) to government funded computer education programmes in the country.
The long-running rivalry between Microsoft Corp and Google Inc is turning into a schoolyard brawl.
Software giant Microsoft and Internet major Yahoo! on Wednesday signed a 10-year search deal that will see the two firms jointly challenging the dominance of Google in the search business.
Microsoft Research India on Thursday demonstrated the first prototype of a multi-lingual interactive digital map of India.
It has also filled a key gap in its payment systems team by hiring Ravi Byakod, a senior Google engineer.
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.
In the biggest management reshuffle at Microsoft Corp since Satya Nadella took over as its chief executive, two top executives, Tony Bates and Tami Reller, will leave the company while a former Clinton family aide will become its chief strategy officer, according to media reports.
Microsoft Corporation on Friday announced free training for IT professionals for SQL 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 to be launched in December.\n
Now that pricing and models for Microsoft Surface (for Windows RT) is finally out, we can open the Pandora's Box and telll you how it will do when pitted against the current reigning champion in the tablet-world, the iPad.
Microsoft, like many tech firms, is not a model of diversity.
Global software leader Microsoft Corporation has assured the Indian government of its commitment to supply 5,000 personal computers for a pilot education programme in 100 schools across six states
Do they have it in them to take on the competition?
Bhavish Aggarwal, founder and chief executive officer of Ola, is encouraging developers to switch from Google Maps to Ola Maps. Ola is offering developers a year of free access to Ola Maps on the company's Krutrim Cloud and over Rs 100 crore in free credits. This initiative comes after Ola replaced Google Maps with its own Ola Maps, leading to annual savings of around Rs 100 crore.
They wanted to learn about the set-up and support entrepreneur there.
Known as Virtual Earth 3D, this new technology lets users view a three-dimensional map of, initially, 15 US cities when they use 'Live Search,' the Newsweek said.
This is primarily because of the current economic situation in the country, Microsoft said. "Given the economic downturn, we are filing substantially fewer H-1B applications than we filed last year," Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith wrote in a blog posting on microsoftissues.com.
Microsoft is likely to buy around 15 companies this year, in line with previous years.
Frost & Sullivan, a global consulting company, on Thursday ranked Microsoft as number one vendor of business intelligence software
Microsoft Corp.'s anti-spam software is being used to create a vaccine that could fight the deadly Human Immunodeficiency Virus.
Aimed at tapping first time PC users in the Hindi belt, Microsoft Corporation India on Thursday rolled out its operating system Windows XP Starter Edition in Hindi.
A United States judge on Tuesday ordered Microsoft to stop selling Microsoft Word in its current form in the US as it infringes a patent owned by a Canadian company, i41.
Software giant Microsoft is expected to provide a technical preview of its new Windows 9 operating system at an event in San Francisco later this month.
Lack of trust in employers has often led Chinese workers to balk at takeovers they fear will worsen employment conditions.
Meanwhile, the grand pre-shaadi celebrations continue.
Foxconn's business in India has grown to over $10 billion till 2024.
Microsoft India managing director Rajiv Kaul has moved to the company's headquarters in Redmond as the senior director in the Windows client emerging market group.
Microsoft Corporation India has instituted 'Innovative Teachers Leadership' award for teachers under its India education program.
Microsoft on Tuesday said it would double its investments in India and the employee strength in the small and medium business segment to expand its reach in the country by the year-end.
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on Friday had a private meeting with senior officials of his company in Chennai for about two hours.
They will act as "innovation hubs" at select colleges and technology institutes, providing incubation and expert hands-on support on Microsoft technology.
In January, the software major announced that it would trim 5,000 jobs over the next 18 months. Rattled by the adverse global economic conditions, Microsoft posted a fall in quarterly revenue for the first time in 23 years, last month.
It's the first new gaming console in eight years.
Microsoft has drawn up aggressive plans to increase the reach of its hardware products across India in the next 12 months.
Microsoft Corporation on Thursday announced the availability of a Hindi language interface for the Windows XP operating system which can be downloaded at no additional cost.
