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.
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.
The writing has been on the wall for some time. Exodus of senior leadership and growth behind its peers are reasons that have prompted Thierry Delaporte, the chief executive officer (CEO) of Wipro to resign, analysts said. Delaporte, Wipro's seventh CEO, also resigned without completing his five-year term, like his predecessor Abidali Neemuchwala decided to end his tenure prematurely in 2020. Phil Fersht, HFS Research CEO and chief analyst believes the change in leadership was at least six months overdue.
Nineteen per cent of global fund managers remain bullish on India, suggests the latest BofA Asia Fund Manager Survey (FMS). A total of 249 panelists with $656 billion worth of assets under management (AUM) participated in the survey between February 2 and 8, BofA said. Two hundred and nine participants with $568 billion AUM responded to the global FMS questions, while 145 participants with $331 billion in AUM responded to the regional fund manager survey (FMS) questions, BofA said.
They will act as "innovation hubs" at select colleges and technology institutes, providing incubation and expert hands-on support on Microsoft technology.
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Gates owns about 4.5 per cent of the $277 billion company and is its largest individual shareholder.
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.
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.
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on Friday had a private meeting with senior officials of his company in Chennai for about two hours.
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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.
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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.
Following developments on Thursday, Microsoft is likely to pursue a hostile bid for Yahoo Inc takeover, people familiar with the proceedings said. Price will be a key factor if Microsoft turns hostile towards Yahoo. Microsoft's cash-and-stock offer was valued at $29.48 a share as of 4 p.m. on Thursday, on Nasdaq stock market composite trading. Yahoo had rejected this offer on the grounds of undervaluation. Microsoft had decided to up its bid as much as $ 33 per Yahoo share.
Google's Chrome OS will soon challenge the software giant's stranglehold in the operating system market.
With the release of Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL, Microsoft has catapulted itself into a position where it can compete against the big boys of the mobile phone industry with consummate ease.
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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.
Updated Windows is aimed chiefly at soothing traditional computer users.
IT company Microsoft Corporation India on Tuesday flagged off a series of five-city e-governance seminars, targeted at bureaucrats and government officials.
Microsoft on Tuesday announced its decision to localise Windows and Office software in 14 Indian languages over the next 12 months and that the company would hire 'hundreds' in India this year.
The two entities would form a "broad strategic partnership that would use their complementary strengths and expertise to create a new global mobile ecosystem."
"Live Search Maps for India will allow users to search for geographical information, places of general interest and business listings both on the PC and on mobile phones," said Microsoft India Consumer and Online Marketing Operations Head Rishi Srivastava. Microsoft's map services will offer detailed listings and street maps for nine cities, business listings across 29 cities and access to highway networks to 20,000 cities and towns.
The OpenMalaysia blog -run by advocates and students who support 'open' standards -- indicates that some countries have changed their earlier 'No' votes to 'Yes' for OOXML, helping the software major to get the necessary combination of more than two-thirds 'approve' votes and less than a quarter for 'disapproval'. Lawyer and standards expert, Andrew Updegrove, an advocate of the rival standard Open Document Format, too corroborates this view.
The Open Document Format (ODF) proponents are alleging that the Microsoft has "cajoled" Indian NGOs to write to the IT ministry and BIS, supporting OOXML as a standard.
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 US-based firm, however said it does not have any direct evidence of customer data being breached illegally by the government.
Microsoft India on Tuesday launched the Student and Teacher edition of Office 2003 at a special price to enable the academic community have greater access to the latest technologies.
Reports suggest that the new handset would feature the Microsoft logo, 5-inch display, 1.2GHz processor, 1GB RAM and 8GB storage.
Unilever completed one of the largest cloud migrations in the consumer goods industry, with a little help from Accenture and Microsoft, and has become a cloud-only enterprise. Accenture and Microsoft, together with their joint venture, Avanade, worked with Unilever to deliver the transformation in 18 months with minimal disruption to business operations, Accenture said in a release. The release added that it has not only helped ensure and optimise operations for Unilever but also provides a platform to drive innovation and growth.
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