MS to hire hundreds more in India
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HYDERABAD: Microsoft will hire several hundred new staff at its new campus here in the next year, its chief executive said on Monday -- a move aimed at strengthening its presence in the country.
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HYDERABAD, India  - Microsoft Corp. will hire  several hundred new staff at its new Indian campus in the next  year, its chief executive said on Monday, in a move aimed at  strengthening its presence in Asia's fourth-biggest economy.
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft plans to start testing a new education PC called IQ PC and an education channel on its MSN portal in India next month. The India launch of the IQ PC and education channel will be the first worldwide. It is part of Microsoft's "Unlimited Potential" program, which aims to use technology to increase the reach of education, said a spokeswoman for Microsoft India on Wednesday. Microsoft ChairmanÂ Bill Gates announcedÂ the Unlimited Potential program in April. The new education PC, which is a combination of online and offline content, is likely to be priced at about Indian Rupees 21,000 ($513). It runs on a Advanced Micro DevicesÂ (AMD) processor, and comes bundled with software from both Microsoft and local partners offering educational software. Microsoft also announced Wednesday the launch of the MSN IQ Beta Education Channel, which will be a repository of educational and "edutainment" content. Students will have access online to curriculum, tutoring, competitive exam coaching, entertainment, references and counseling, the company said. Students will be able to access the education channel through the IQ PC and from shared PCs at Internet cafes, the spokeswoman said. Microsoft has partnered with Indian PC makers Zenith Computers of Mumbai and Wipro of Bangalore. Selecting AMD as a partner for the pilot program was only coincidental and Microsoft is also working with Intel Corp. on other similar initiatives, the spokeswoman said. "There is a lot more coming in this area from Microsoft," the spokeswoman said. For example, the company has already trained over 100,000 teachers in India on using computers in education through its Project Shiksha, she said. Microsoft Research in Bangalore is also working on technologies that will make computers more accessible and affordable to students, and has developed a technology called MultiPoint that allows several computer mice to be used with a PC simultaneously. This technology is targeted at schools in India and other countries that cannot afford to give each student a PC. The concept of the IQ PC has been researched extensively by Microsoft, but the company plans to run test programs of the PC and the MSN Education Channel first in Bangalore and Pune, the spokeswoman said. The country-wide roll out will be in November. "Our focus is on making IT accessible, and affordable, and also relevant by offering content and services relevant to the local requirements," the spokeswoman said. The IQ PC is not cheap by Indian standards. A number of entry-level PCs are less expensive. However, Microsoft holds that the price will be attractive because of the software, Internet connectivity and other tools and services bundled with the product.
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Unisys is opening two additional global service delivery centers in India as part of its plan to expand its offshore resources to 6,000 people by 2008.
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IT services company Accenture will have more staff in India than in any other country by the end of August.
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Chipmaker ST Microelectronics is doubling its Indian workforce to 3,000 and making the country a centre for R&D.
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The Microsoft Corporation announced on Monday that it was significantly expanding its software development operations in India as it opened a new campus near Hyderabad
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Royal &amp; Sun Alliance, Britain&#39;s second-largest insurance company, is planning to shift over 1,100 jobs to India as a part of its cost-cutting exercise.
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InfoWorld - IBM plans to continue hiring global services delivery staff in India by the thousands, adding to the 73,000 it already has in its global services and other operations in the country.
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Microsoft has trained 200,000 teachers in India on the use of computers, ahead of its original target to train 80,000 teachers in the country during the five-year period ending December this year, it said.The company introduced the program, called project Shiksha, in 2003 with the objective of&#160;raising the computer literacy of Indian teachers and students&#160;in government-run schools. The 200,000 teachers trained so far have in turn trained about 10 million students, a spokeswoman for Microsoft India said on Monday.The moves by Microsoft to offer free or subsidized software in India have however come in for criticism from the Free Software Foundation, which compared Microsoft&#39;s philanthropy to that of a cigarette manufacturer handing out free samples of cigarettes to students.The communist-run state of Kerala in south India is actively&#160;promoting open-source software&#160;in schools, but most other states and the federal government are beneficiaries of Microsoft&#39;s programs.Microsoft works with state governments to help teachers use its technology in school administrations and also to include it in their curriculum and teaching methods, she said. While the state governments provide the classrooms, Microsoft provides the hardware and software, and a team of trainers for the teachers.Although the company has reached its training target, it&#39;s not stopping the program yet. It did not say how many more teachers and students it plans to cover under the program, though.The company has introduced low-cost, starter editions of its Vista operating system, as well as local language versions of its Office suite to target both the academic and e-governance markets.&#160;
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Will it sell? That's the 40,875,000 rupee question Microsoft plans to sell a PC for kids and launch an educational channel on its MSN portal in India as the next step in a worldwide "Unlimited Potential" program.â¦
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Microsoft is making big news in India this week by expanding its Hyderabad campus and signing two lucrative deals in Asiaâs fourth largest economy.
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Microsoft said it will join with India's second-largest software firm, Infosys Technologies, to provide software and consulting to manufacturing, banking and automobile companies, a statement said.
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Microsoft announced it would set up its second Asian research facility in India's technology hub of Bangalore.
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By Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.  Feb. 14--QUINCY -- The recent hiring of 15 technicians at Microsoft's data center here is the first wave of what officials say could be a job boom for skilled workers.
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LONDON Reuters, the news agency and financial-data company, said Thursday that it would triple its number of employees in India by the end of next year, as the company tries to meet stringent cost-cutting targets.
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Microsoft is significantly expanding its software development operations in India as it opens a new campus near Hyderabad, its second-largest campus after its headquarters in Redmond, Wash.