Microsoft Launches Global 'Office Ready' initiative in India for Microsoft Office 2007

New Delhi, Delhi, India

Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd today announced the launch of its global 'Office Ready' initiative in India. 'Office Ready' is a part of the post launch go-to-market strategy for 2007 Microsoft Office. The initiative is aimed at enabling partners enjoy a simplified licensing policy, reduce inventory management and support cost; and offering more opportunities to sell products and services profitably. From a customer perspective, the initiative will allow the customers to experience the complete features of Microsoft Office Professional 2007 for 60 days before making a purchase decision.

The Office Ready initiative makes it easier for partners to sell Microsoft Office suites with a new PC. System builders can purchase Microsoft Office Medialess license kits from distributors and OEM's, install the Office Ready image on their PC's and sell them with a 60-day trial of Microsoft Office Professional 2007 to the customers. Once the customer has tried the enhanced features of the new Office 2007, they can buy the product key for the suite of their choice from the reseller anytime with in or post the trial period.

2007 Microsoft Office release is the most significant advancement in Office from Microsoft in more than a decade. Customer adoption has crossed over 1,75,0,000 licenses for 2007 Microsoft Office since its business launch in November 2006.

Commenting on the launch, Pankaj Ukey, Office System- Product lead, Microsoft Corporation India, said, "The success of Microsoft Office 2007 in the Indian market is very encouraging for us as a Company. The launch of this initiative marks a significant step forward in our go-to market strategy in India. By launching the Office Ready initiative our endeavor is to enable more and more customers experience this revolutionary product and simplify software distribution by the partner community. This initiative will allow our partners to sell PCs with pre-installed trial version of original Office; cutting down their inventory and support cost significantly resulting in increased profitability. We are confident that the initiative will help us drive much wider adoption of 2007 Microsoft Office in India," he further added.

Microsoft has a partnership with four OEMs including HP, Lenovo, Acer and Toshiba for 'Office Ready'. Over 1778 system builders have purchased 3579 Microsoft Office Ready OPK Masterkits within three weeks of the program launch.

2007 Microsoft Office release has a new streamlined 'Fluent' user interface that exposes commonly used and familiar commands, enhanced graphics and formatting capabilities, new communications and information management tools and more reliability and security. The latest release helps increase personal productivity, simplifies how people work together, makes processes and content management more efficient, and improves the quality of business insight across organizations.

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Founded in 1975, Microsoft (NASDAQ "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software for personal and business computing. The company offers a wide range of products and services designed to empower people through great software - any time, any place and on any device. Microsoft Corporation India Private Ltd is a subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation USA. It has had a presence in India since 1990 and currently has offices in ten cities - Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi, Pune, Nagpur, Ahmedabad and Chandigarh.

Source: Microsoft Corporation India Private Ltd (Business Wire India)

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