Microsoft will fund hundreds of new Indian entrepreneurs in the smart city space but its Hyderabad-born chief executive officer Satya Nadella would love to have less friction in working with the government. You could also say he’s setting up the company as a circular firing squad. “We want more of course, while at the same time I am optimistic about the rate of change and adoption”, he said, adding that he would like to see “less of friction”.
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I think it’s about how are we going to evolve personal computing by inventing new forms of computing; about having that mobility of experiences as well as new computing. “That’s really what I look at”. Focusing on cloud business seems to have been a good choice, as the company is now reaping the benefits with first quarter revenue from its “Intelligent Cloud” division, which encompasses Windows Server and Azure, up by 8 percent at $5.9 billion.
Giving a hands-on demo of how Microsoft sought to achieve this, he showed how Microsoft was now driving productivity across even Apple devices with renewed software like Delve Analytics for business intelligence.
The Microsoft CEO said his company was looking to engineer solutions to burgeoning urban migration and urban issues in India.
Fadnavis also said that, “We have brought a lot of services online and we want Maharashtra to be a role model for other states”. He said the capability of these devices to do PC-like computing will be great for a country like India.
While Lumia revenues may never recover, Microsoft feels the need to have a few devices on which Windows 10 Mobile is guaranteed to run, in order to deliver its strategic promise of an operating system that spans all types of devices with a common apps base.
Nadella also announced that the Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL would launched in India next month.
“(An) exciting thing that is happening in India is with start-ups and e-commerce.
For instance, the way architects will design buildings in the future will change. The successor to the widely successful Surface Pro 3, the Surface Pro 4, is the 4th-generation of company’s own tablet lineup and was launched last month.
A video demo of StaffPad went on and showed that A.R. Rahman is a big user of StaffPad and Surface.
Nadella will meet Prasad to discuss the company’s plan to provide broadband connectivity in villages.
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Under the partnership agreement, Paytm will also facilitate and provide support to Microsoft service sales via their existing network of merchants across the country.
