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India Wire Ballmer takes potshots in India at Microsoft’s competition
India Wire Ballmer takes potshots in India at Microsoft’s competition | Ballmer takes potshots in India at Microsoft’s competition |
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| by Sufia Tippu | |
| Sunday, 12 November 2006 | |
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There was no specific agenda for his visit. The Microsoft spokesperson gave the usual stereotype reply that India was important for Microsoft from both a customer and talent perspective and that Ballmer’s trip was to keep himself abreast of development and opportunities here. Sources at the Microsoft India Development Center said that this visit was just to pep up the morale at the development center. Microsoft has not exactly been the blue-eyed favorite among analysts with a pretty unsatisfactory growth graph during the last few quarters especially against the background of Google and Yahoo going great guns. Apart from doing the usual rounds of meeting the Prime Minister and interacting with the employees at the Microsoft India Development Center in Hyderabad, Ballmer, for a short while also played a different role of being a guest editor at The Economic Times, one of India’s leading business dailies. With competition coming up loud and clear, it was but natural for questions to revolve around Google which is seen emerging as the ‘thought leader’ of the Internet age with Microsoft falling behind. When queried about this, Ballmer is said to have replied that at the end of the day there is only one thing to do - develop and bring new products and services in the market. |
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