Customers adoption overwhelms Microsoft

NEW DELHI: Customer adoption has crossed over 2,00,000 for Windows Vista and 8,85,000 for 2007 Microsoft Office System licenses in just over a month since the launch on November 30 in India.

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 on January 12, 2007 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 Microsoft-commissioned Cap Gemini study, early adopters expect dramatic gains in productivity through capabilities that address core business issues in new ways.

Commenting on the significant customer adoption, 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,” he further added.

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