Microsoft India unveils new products

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BANGALORE, INDIA: Microsoft Corporation India Private Limited today launched three major server and tools offerings, Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008.

New tool to help customers drive greater business continuity with improved security, enable innovation while controlling costs, and empower people to make better decisions with data.

The three products enable Dynamic IT - a platform for core IT infrastructure and application infrastructure technologies that can easily adapt to changing business conditions.

To begin realizing the benefits of Dynamic IT, customers can deploy the new products to power next generation web applications, enable better business decisions and return savings to the business by using technologies, such as virtualization. Windows Server 2008, including a beta version of the Hyper-V virtualization technology, and Visual Studio 2008 are available today. A feature-complete, Community Technology Preview (CTP) of SQL Server 2008 is also now available with general availability expected in the third quarter of 2008.

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 are key products in the company's strategy to promote greater interoperability, opportunity and choice for customers and developers throughout the industry. Microsoft recently announced a set of broad-reaching changes to its technology and business practices to increase the openness of its products. The interoperability principles and actions apply to high-volume Microsoft products - Windows Vista (including the .NET Framework), Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, Office 2007, Exchange Server 2007, and Office SharePoint Server 2007, and future versions of all these products.

Microsoft has worked with more than 1,000 global partners to help plan, build, test, and deploy these solutions by providing early access to code, training and testing, and certification support.

Globally, hundreds of Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) have demonstrated their support with the development of a wide variety of business applications for industries including retail, accounting, commerce, engineering, financial services, health care, supply chain, and more.

Additionally, in April, Microsoft will also be offering live online learning sessions to help Developers and IT Professionals across the country get skilled on these products.

"Organizations currently spend more than 70 percent of their IT budgets and resources on maintaining existing infrastructure - this is clearly less than optimal and a huge drain on resources. The focus for this launch is to allow businesses to provide them with powerful tools to focus on acquiring and leveraging new capabilities, rather than straining to maintain existing infrastructure," said S. Somasegar, senior vice president, Microsoft Corporation.

He added, "We have received very positive feedback from our early adopter customers as well as IT professionals and developers who interface with these technologies on a daily basis. We are very excited to be delivering these solutions and capabilities today to a broad set of audiences."




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