According to StatCounter, a website that tracks what software is loaded on Internet-connected computers, more than 90 per cent of PCs in China -- now the world's biggest market -- are running pre-8 versions of Windows.
The India centre, which is the seventh such facility for the company globally, will function as a satellite to Microsoft's Redmond-based Digital Crimes Unit.
Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd has forged a strategic alliance with Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd for venturing into the web conferencing market.
Gaming is going to get a makeover this November.
Microsoft Corporation India on Thursday announced the launch of its third IT Academy in the state of Karnataka.
It's planning to offer unique apps such as Office 365, One Drive and X-Box Games.
Shashank PM, a Class IX ICSE student from Pondicherry, gives you basic information on Microsoft Surface tablet, touted as serious competition to Apple's iPad.
Microsoft is said to be partnering with a few ODM manufactures to create the Zune-like phone, which includes 720p HD video and at least a 5 mega pixel camera.
Microsoft would announce availability of its cloud services operating out of India's data centers.
Microsoft, which spends nearly $7 billion annually for product innovation and research, is already present in the country with two research centres--in Hyderabad and Bangalore. The Hyderabad centre, established as early as 1998 and known as Microsoft India Development Center, has nearly 1,400 developers, who are working on more than 50 different Microsoft projects.
Satyam Computer Services and Microsoft China signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly develop the enterprise solutions market in China.\n
As part of its efforts to encourage development of IT applications in Indian languages, software major Microsoft Corporation India has launched 'Indic Developer Challenge', a nation wide contest aimed at budding local language developers in engineer
Even as the software giant introduces its latest operating system, there are other options too.
Microsoft Corp on Thursday announced the India launch of its software Office 2010, which incorporates the popular Word, Excel and Powerpoint applications.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and retiring Chief Executive Steve Ballmer are standing for re-election to Microsoft Corp's board of directors, despite recent moves by some investors to reduce their influence.
Microsoft Corporation India Private Limited on Wednesday announced the signing of a comprehensive memorandum of understanding with the Government of Maharashtra.
According to the agreement, Microsoft will offer Windows Mobile solutions to RCom customers, including push e-mail support, chat, photo-sharing, content back-up and other applications, RCom said.
Internet search engine Google made a surprise entry as the second-most preferred employer in a survey conducted among engineering students.
Kaifu Lee, embroiled in the ongoing acrimonious legal battle between Microsoft and Google, has taken up his post as the latter's head in China.\n
Close on the heels of expanding its operations, Microsoft India has now set its eyes on penetrating the consumer market in the country.
Microsoft's 'Online Services' in India will allow small and medium businesses and enterprise customers to access e-mail and conferencing solutions through Internet, for as low as $2 per user a month.
Software giant Microsoft is working on developing a Bengali-language interface and expects it to be ready within a year, a company official said on Wednesday.
The Office suite for the Apple device has touched users, and desktop users will be glad to shift to the mobile platform.
Microsoft has presented its Most Valuable Professional Award 2005 to Deepak Puri, a senior consultant with Progressive Insurance -- the second largest insurance company in the US.
Steve Ballmer would be dead in the water without Windows and Office, which he inherited.
Kristoffer Von Hassel of San Diego has discovered a back door in to Xbox live, making the smartest guys at Microsoft pay attention.
Microsoft Corporation India will see a change of guard with Neelam Dhawan taking over as the new managing director.
It is not clear which groups of the Indian operations have been affected by the cuts which are learnt to have been carried out across diverse functions. However, a company source said that a sizeable number of Microsoft's sales and support personnel in Hyderabad and a few in Bangalore were among those affected. The Response Windows team has also been dismantled completely, the source claimed.
Microsoft India's chairman Bhaskar Pramanik tells Business Standard how India will be at the forefront of the company's 'mobile first, cloud first' strategy.
Finnish firm Nokia, which is selling its devices and services business to Microsoft, will pay the software giant 37.9 million euros (about $51.2 million) if the handset maker's shareholders oppose the deal.
In August, Steve Ballmer said he would retire within 12 months.
Recession here is not as drastic as what you might see in the developed world because the hole that is dug is not that deep in countries like India; thus, they can recover much quicker, says S Somasegar.
Software and consulting major Infosy Technologies on Thursday announced that its banking business unit was partnering with Microsoft Philippines
Windows 10, which comes almost three years after the launch of the company's last operating system, will be available in 190 countries.
Aimed at making cheaper PCs, Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled low-cost Windows XP Starter Edition operating systems in India in Hindi targetting the first-time home users.
Microsoft Corp, the world's largest IT firm, has refuted a US-based trade union's assertion that the software maker was sending technology and other jobs to India and other nations, agency reports said.
