Microsoft trained 200,000 teachers in India
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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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An online education deal is being signed between firms in the UK and China - with plans to reach 20 million students.
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Microsoft is offering free use of its development and design tools to high school and college students worldwide.
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(InfoWorld) - Indian outsourcer Satyam Computer Services plans to train over 1,500 staff over the next two years on software and technologies from business software vendor SAP in a move to meet growing demand worldwide for consultants certified on SAP software. Satyam is setting up a SAP training academy in collaboration with the Indian subsidiary of SAP of Walldorf, Germany, the Indian company said Wednesday. Of the 1,500 new consultants to be trained, about 750 consultants will be certified on SAPâs NetWeaver integration and application server middleware. Satyam, which is based in Hyderabad, India, is a large global implementation partner for SAP, according to Anand Ekambaram, director for education services at SAP India. SAP is helping Satyam build a pool of consultants to support its software implementations and other services, he said. Expertise on SAP technology will also help companies like Satyam build applications around SAPâs NetWeaver and ESA (Enterprise Services Architecture), he added. Indian outsourcing companies are becoming increasingly important to the global SAP services market because they can offer lower cost services by using a mix of on-shore and offshore delivery of services and also because many of their customers worldwide are SAP customers, Ekambaram said. The German business software vendor is planning training agreements similar to the one with Satyam with two other large Indian outsourcers, Ekambaram added. Satyam currently has 3,000 staff in its SAP practice. Under an agreement with Satyam, SAP India will provide specially designed training modules for basic and advanced education in SAP solutions. Trainers from around the globe will lead the sessions at the Satyam learning centers, created specifically for these kinds of programs, Satyam said. Satyam has placed a strong focus on its enterprise resource planning (ERP) practice around software from vendors such as SAP and Oracle. The company does not break out its revenue from SAP implementations
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Microsoft Research will open a laboratory in Bangalore, India, the company&#39;s third research installation overseas and a sign of India&#39;s increasing importance in tech.
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Leading microchip maker Intel Corp   plans to spend $300 million over the next four years  on a Web training program to help teachers incorporate  technology into their lesson plans.
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Microsoft on Monday formally opened a new software development campus in India that is Microsoft&#39;s largest campus after its Redmond, Wash.
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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 &#39;hundreds&#39; in India this year.
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Microsoft has tailored its Windows XP Starter Edition for the Indian market, giving it a Hindi interface, as well as help and training resources in that language.
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The number of Indian mobile phone subscribers has passed the 200 million mark after the country added another eight million customers last month, industry figures show.
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Based on a Butler Group survey of around 200 large- and medium-sized enterprises, approximately 60% of organizations are planning to use Microsoft's SharePoint technology in some shape or form over the next 12 months.
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SOFTWARE giant Microsoft has signed multi-million dollar software partnerships with two of Indiaâs leading outsourcing firms. The firmâs chief executive, Steve Ballmer, said it has also stepped up plans
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Hyderabad, Nov. 16 (NNN) : Information technology (IT) giant Microsoft has opened a new campus in Hyderabad, which is said to be the biggest development centre outside America.
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PARIS  - Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates signed a co-operation agreement with UNESCO on Wednesday to improve access to computers, the Internet and information technology training in developing countries.
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Microsoft Corp. announced Wednesday that it would offer a low-cost, localized version of its Windows XP operating system in India to tap the large market potential in this country of 1 billion people, most of whom do not speak English.
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Hindi version of Windows XP costs just $36, as the software giant aims for gains in the populous nation.
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India has launched its first satellite to be used for expanding the country&#39;s educational network. The Edusat, weighing around 2,000kg, will help train teachers and provide primary and secondary education by linking classrooms across India.