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Rank 21: Microsoft Corporation India: Out by a Whisker

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DQI Bureau
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Rajiv Kaul
Managing director
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MICROSOFT INDIA, a regular in the Dataquest Top 20 league for some

years–it was ranked at #17 in 1999-2000 and #19 in 2000-01–missed being in

this year’s list by a whisker, largely due to its flat growth rate. And that

flat growth is seen as a direct consequence of flat PC sales in fiscal 2001-02–just

6% growth in units, against 51% growth in units in 2000-01.

Performance

Highlights
Sales to government and telecom sectors were up
TCS, AmEx, NIC, Orange, Dept of Posts, ABN Amro and the Indian Army joined the XP-users’ list


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Besides, 65% of the 2,008,003 PCs sold in the country last year were from the

assembled segment, notorious for bundling pirated software. Apart from battling

piracy, Microsoft continued to hit the headlines with a slew of high-profile

product launches–Office XP Professional, Windows XP Professional, Office XP

Proofing Tool Kit, SharePoint Portal Server 2000 and Visual Studio .NET (the

latest version of its developer tools suite). The channel launch of XP took

place in September, with training workshops organized for 3,000 partners across

the country. The company also launched the global Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT)

program and set up a .Net technology center in Bangalore, at an initial

investment outlay of Rs 20 crore.

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