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Rajiv Kaul |
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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.
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Performance
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Sales to government and telecom sectors were up |
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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.