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BANGALORE: The collaboration between Microsoft and the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) enables the Government of India and the IT major to engage in cooperative security activities to address threats to national IT infrastructure security and public safety more efficiently and effectively.
Microsoft and India government had on Thursday agreed to collaborate in cyber security through the Security Cooperation Program, following discussions between Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates and the Union Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Dayanidhi Maran at Redmond, US.
The security agreement is expected to help in improving computer security to protect India's economy and the online security of its citizens, Microsoft India said in a statement.
According to the decisions taken, Microsoft will broaden language availability for first time PC users. In September 2004, Microsoft had announced the pilot of Windows XP Starter Edition in India, designed to meet the needs of beginning PC users and to further enable digital access in underserved markets.
The 30-year-old IT major said, “In response to customer and partner feedback, we are pleased to announce plans to deliver a multilingual Windows XP Starter Edition for India, designed for speakers of any of nine Indic languages who may also want to use English.”
To help accelerate IT literacy, Microsoft will work with the government to pilot a new approach to ICT-based education and extend this project to all districts in India.
It will invest in an e-governance centre in collaboration with an Indian institution to undertake pilot e-Governance.
To promote local language computing the company will further strengthen its countrywide initiative, Project Bhasha, a comprehensive program focused on providing local interfaces for Microsoft's flagship desktop offerings Windows and Office in 14 Indian languages.
Microsoft will collaborate with the Government of India and the Indian scientific community to conduct research in Indic language computing technologies. This will include areas such as machine translation between Indian languages and English, search and browsing and character recognition.
Under the rural kiosks initiative Microsoft will support the government and rural entrepreneurs who are participating in the program in establishing 100,000 Common Service Centers in the country.
Microsoft will offer a range of products, services, consultancy, training and support as needed to rural entrepreneurs.
It will also share its research findings regarding critical success factors for the establishment of rural kiosks with the government and the agency designated by the Government of India for this purpose, Microsoft said in the statement.
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