Company name Microsoft Corp (India) Private Limited Contact Person Gauri Arora Lead-Corporate Citizenship Address 9th Floor, Tower A, DLF Cyber Greens, DLF Cyber Citi, Sector 25A, DLF Phase III, Gurgaon – 122002, Haryana, India Telephone: +91-124-4158000 Fax: +91-124-4158888 Email: garora@microsoft.com

Company Profile

Microsoft set up India operations in 1990 with current employee strength of approximately 5300 people. Since its entry into India, Microsoft has focused on becoming a key IT partner to the Indian government and the industry, supporting and fueling the growth of the local IT industry through its partner enablement programmes and under  its Microsoft Unlimited Potential, enhancing education, jobs and opportunities and fostering innovation through relevant, affordable access to computing. Currently Microsoft India has offices in 16 cities – Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Indore, Jamshedpur, Jaipur, Kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, and Pune.

Product details

Microsoft provides software and solutions for different user groups – Consumer & Online, Developers, Enterprises, Public Sector and Small & Medium business. These fall into the following broad categories:

• Windows Client, including Microsoft® Vista desktop operating system (and the soon-to-be-launched Windows 7);
  Information Worker, including Microsoft Office, Microsoft Publisher, Microsoft Visio®, Microsoft Project, and other stand-alone desktop applications;

• Business Solutions, encompassing Microsoft Dynamics Ax, Microsoft Dynamics Nav and Microsoft Dynamics CRM;

• Server Platforms, including the Microsoft Windows Server System™ integrated server software, software developer tools, and MSDN®;

• Windows Live includes popular services such as Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Hotmail, Windows Live Photo Gallery, Windows Live Spaces and Windows Live Skydrive, to name a few;

• Windows Mobile, with more than 35+models including 17+ stylus devices from seven device partners – HTC, Motorola Q, Palm Treo, HP, iMate, Asus and Samsung;

• MSN including the MSN® network, MSN Internet Access, MSN Hotmail® and other Web-based services;

• Bing provides relevant search;

• Entertainment & Devices Division, including Microsoft Xbox®, consumer hardware and software, online games, and the Microsoft TV platform;

• Microsoft Advertising, representing all of Microsoft’s advertising products, services and platforms.

ACHIEVEMENTS/USP

Microsoft’s successful ventures:

• Partners in Learning for accelerating IT literacy and enhancing the classroom environment among government schools across the country. Started in 2003, the first phase of the project – Project Shiksha – has so far impacted more than 370, 000 government school teachers, 11,000 principals, and impacted a total of 19 million students across the country;

• Project Bhasha for promoting local language computing wherein we have tried to break down one of the barriers by providing local language interface packs for Microsoft products in 12 Indian languages;

• Project Jyoti which provides lifelong learning for adults in rural communities specially women through Community Technology Learning Centers;

• Project Vikas to enhance the global competitiveness of the SMEs by IT.