Microsofts India strategy ; The giant is eyeing solutions in health and education sectors.
Business Today, March, 2008 by Kushan Mitra
That India is extremely important in Microsoft's scheme of things is no secret. And it certainly helps if the man entrusted with guiding the software giant into the future also happens to be an Indophile. Meet Craig Mundie, Microsoft's Chief Research and Strategy Officer (CRSO), who was in India recently and has been travelling to the country at least twice or thrice every year for the past four years.
Healthcare and education are two areas that have not been transformed by information technology. We had to figure out how we could, despite never having been involved in making solutions for these two sectors, get involved here in a way that could catalyse a real change, Mundie explains while talking about how 'big bad' Microsoft (the way the European Commission paints it) is...
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