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.
As Gates plans his transition, Ray Ozzie (founder of Lotus Notes and Groove Virtual Office) has assumed the position of chief software architect and Craig Mundie has taken the new title of chief research and strategy officer.
Hit by plunging sales, Microsoft saw its profit plunge to a little below $3 billion for the third quarter ended March 31, 2009. The software major posted a six per cent fall in revenue at $13.65 billion, the first of its kind since the company went public 23 years ago. In the year-ago period, Microsoft's revenue stood at $14.45 billion, the firm said.
The phone has the ability to store up to 6,000 songs on a 32 GB memory card.
The estimated retail price for Windows Vista Home basic edition is now at Rs 4,000 while Windows Vista home premium is available at Rs 5,300 and Windows Vista ultimate at Rs 11,500, the company said.Traditionally, most customers buy the windows operating system as a part of a new PC purchase, it said. However, with the boom in the Indian retail segment and an increasing inclination to buy original software, there is a growing uptake for retails packs.
Microsoft has launched its first 4G device, the Nokia Lumia 638 with Windows Phone 8.1 at a price of Rs 8,299.
Buying Nokia's gadget business thrusts Microsoft deeper into the hotly contested market
Nokia-Microsoft transfer deal transaction is now subject only to certain customary closing conditions.
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 has also approached other big online publishers to persuade them to remove their sites from Google's search engine
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 companies will jointly launch the Windows 8.1 powered 10.1 inch Hewlett-Packard Omni10 tablet with embedded content from Pearson and Microsoft Office in the higher education space.
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.
Hyderabad-based JP Mobile, provider of enterprise mobile messaging and security software, on Thursday announced its partnership with Microsoft to expand the capabilities and service offerings of hosted exchange service providers.
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US firms are seeking Indian engineers to work on technologies similar to their global counterparts
Microsoft Devices Group has unveiled the Nokia 215, its most affordable Internet-ready phone.
Gates says he wants to spend more time on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The device is being labelled as the phone for 'selfies and skype'.
He replaces Mark Pincus, the founder of the company.
The Redmond-based company had announced in January that it would axe 5,000 jobs globally amid the ongoing slowdown.
Can Microsoft, the fiercest predator in the software jungle, really change its spots
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.
Companies push out warnings to PCs infected with Bamital.
Microsoft announced on Tuesday its entry into next generation video gaming and entertainment system by showcasing Xbox 360, to be launched later this year and will set up a retail network for its distribution across seven cities.
Microsoft had began offering a temporary patch for the problem on September 19.
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.
He will look at early stage software, Internet, and tech companies.
Meanwhile, the grand pre-shaadi celebrations continue.
This building, the third in the campus at Gachibowli on the outskirts of the city, has been constructed to meet global quality standards and can house more than 2000 employees, Microsoft officials said.
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 vulnerability affects customers using Office 2003 and Office 2007 as well as those running Office 2010 on Windows XP and Server 2003.
Chitra Sood, staffing director at Microsoft India Development Centre, talks about opportunities available to young graduates and interns at MSIDC.
The department found that Microsoft India's Gurgoan unit carried out marketing activities for its India operations and not for the Singapore unit as it had claimed in its reply to a show cause notice served by the department earlier. Microsoft officials, however, said they have not received any official communication from the tax department in this regard.
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.
