With the intention to defeat the language barrier to computing, technology giant Microsoft has presented different custom made products, which are specifically directed at the vernacular language market.

The vernacular language market is a market that has been largely left untapped up till now.

It is an important step taken by Microsoft as the language barrier is an additional challenge towards providing access to information to a big part of country’s (India) population. This helps them to participate in India’s growth curve.

Latest data put forward by Net Applications on Monday, suggests that
last month saw market share of Internet Explorer fall down as Mozilla's
Firefox, Google's Chrome, and Apple's Safari experienced small gains.

The data also said that the top spot was held by Microsoft's IE, with
“67.55 percent of the browser market, though that was down .06 percent
from last month and down 7.92 percent from the same time last year.”

The number two spot was held by Firefox with 21.53 percent market share

In a move to provide efficient business management solutions, Microsoft India Pvt. Ltd, today launched customer relationship management (CRM) software, CRM 4.0 in the market. The software, in the midst of global financial crisis, would prove extremely beneficial for corporate world to optimize their productivity, profitability, infrastructure and their budgets.

It seems that multinational computer technology corporation, Microsoft India too is feeling the heat of the ongoing global economic crisis.

Thus, in order to optimize costs and streamline processes, Microsoft India came forward and launched its customer relationship management (CRM) software on Wednesday.

As a value-driven customer relationship management solution, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 offers the facility for organizations to optimize productivity, profitability, infrastructure and their budgets.

Friday saw a meeting between Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer and the company's executives, where Ballmer expressed that the U. S. economy likely will not bottom out until about a year from now, and it will return to a slow growth-track only after a few years

Furthermore, the chief executive of the world's largest software maker made an effort to rally troops at the company-wide meeting but stood by plans to lay off up to 5,000 employees, or about 5 percent of the workforce. The company which announced its biggest-ever job cuts a day earlier thinks the decision taken by it is fine.

Washington - The challengers keep coming, but Microsoft's Internet Explorer still holds the lion's share of the Web browser market. Most estimates put Internet Explorer's market share at around 72 per cent, which means that when a new version of the browser is released, a lot of people will likely be upgrading. Internet Explorer 8
(IE 8), the long-awaited successor to IE 7, is about to turn a lot of heads, as Microsoft nears completion of a browser upgrade that does significantly more than tack on enhancements to existing

features. Here's what's in store.

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