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Microsoft India Posts 8.85 Lakh Office 2007 Users, 2 Lakh Vista Users
IT News Online Staff
2007-01-12
Microsoft Corp. India Pvt. Ltd. announced a significant milestone post the business launch of 2007 Microsoft Office system, Windows Vista and Exchange Server 2007 on November 30, 2006.

Customer adoption has crossed over 2,00,000 for Windows Vista and 8,85,000 for 2007 Microsoft Office System licenses in a short period of just over a month since the launch. The company also announced the launch of a seven-city road show in association with Intel, AMD, EMC, Nortel, Wipro, Kingston and Sonata targeted at educating the enterprise customers and partners about the new platform and the opportunity it presents. Commencing today, the cities covered will include Hyderabad, Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Kolkata and Chennai.

Designed to create people ready businesses, the new combined offering enables people to simplify how they work together, better protect and manage content, find information and improve their business insight, and reduce deployment costs and security vulnerabilities. According to a Cap Gemini study commissioned by Microsoft, early adopters expect dramatic gains in productivity through capabilities that address core business issues in new ways.

Doug Hauger, Chief Operating Officer, Microsoft India, said, "Within a very short span of time since the business launch of our new platform, there has been a remarkable response from our customers across India The outstanding number of early adopters further reinforces our belief that 2007 Microsoft Office System, Windows Vista and 2007 Exchange Server offers a compelling value proposition to customers at large. Together the new platform will help organizations catapult their success and business growth, manifold."

"With the launch of the seven city road show we are confident that even more customers and partners will embrace the new platform," added Hauger.

Windows Vista, the 2007 Microsoft Office system and 2007 Exchange Server also provide the core platform that will enable businesses to take advantage of the benefits of Internet-based software services. All three products incorporate key XML and Web services technologies that will help companies tap into online services and select the mix of on-premise and hosted applications to deliver the right balance of control, convenience, cost-effectiveness and security while helping increase productivity.