Microsoft ties up with AMD, Zenith to make and market PCs in India
28 Jun 2007
Mumbai: Microsoft Corporation has entered into an agreement with Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Zenith Computers Ltd. to manufacture and market personal computers in India.
The computers, priced at Rs21,000, would be sold in 10 retail outlets each in Bangalore and Pune from July on a test basis for three months and will be expanded later on the basis of response.
"We don''t see any gain in the short term. Our perspective is long term," Microsoft India chairman Ravi Venkatesan said.
Microsoft said its online portal that it will provide educational content to students.
It also plans to launch a job search service this year for the country''s nearly 400,000 engineers graduating every year. Microsoft, Venkatesan said, was in talks with partners in government and industry for the job search portal.
Microsoft''s job portal will compete with Info Edge (India ) Ltd.''s and Monster Worldwide Inc.''s among others.
According
to a recent report on PC pentration in India, IDC said
that in 2006-07 the total installed base of PCs in India
was 22 million, that is, one PC for about every 50 Indians.
