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Microsoft honours three IT heroes

Anand Parthasarathy

2008 editions of MS Server, SQL Server and Visual Studio unveiled

— PHOTO: ANAND PARTHASARATHY

THEY MAKE IT HAPPEN: Young tech heroes honoured by Microsoft India’s Senior Vice President (Developer division) S. Somasegar (extreme left) and Chief Operating Officer Doug Hauger (extreme right), in Bangalore on Tuesday.

BANGALORE: To mark the India launch of the latest (2008) editions of its flagship server software products, Microsoft on Tuesday took the novel approach of shifting the limelight to three young Indian innovators, who had harnessed information technology to create compelling solutions for their customers.

New editions of the server software Windows Server 2008, the data base, SQL Server 2008, and the design tool, Visual Studio 2008, were previewed for progressive launch over the next six months.

S. Somasegar Senior Vice-President, Developer Division, Microsoft India, explained that the software leader had put the three tools to rigorous internal use before unleashing them on the public. Doug Hauser, Chief Operating Officer of MS India, said the releases would ‘touch’ 1.5 million IT professionals in India alone.

To mark the occasion, Microsoft honoured the top three contenders in a contest it had sponsored called “Heroes Happen Here!” to identify compelling IT innovations made by young Indian professionals in their spare time. The trio — Rajesh Shirpuram of Spadeworkz, Saravanan Rajappa of TCS and Rizwan Ahmed — used mostly MS tools to craft their innovations.

The three server software tools launched also drew on the strength of Microsoft’s India Development Centre in Hyderabad.

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