In a first of its kind partnership with an Indian university, Microsoft will soon be putting out exclusive development software and tools for use by engineering students anytime, anywhere.
Under a strategic alliance between Microsoft and Anna University announced here on Thursday, students and faculty of all 235 engineering colleges in the State can access the exclusive MS software basket that can be used either in their institutions or at a home/hostel computer for academic/research purposes. S. Somasegar, Corporate Vice-president (Developer division), Microsoft Corporation, told to the media that “the software will be available for a nominal price. The modalities of the partnership are being worked out and the pact would be signed within a month. Such partnerships earlier existed only with individual college departments. The tools would allow students and over 40,000 engineering college faculties to work/learn/conduct research on a range of MS applications.”
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