VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and Microsoft Corporation have announced that AICTE is deploying Microsoft Live@edu as one solution amongst many such initiatives with IT majors and industries, over the next three months to more than 10,000 technical colleges and institutes throughout India. In one such initiative being implemented, Live@edu is a hosted communication and collaboration service that offers email, Microsoft Office Web Apps, instant messaging and storage to AICTE’s more than 7 million students and nearly 500,000 faculty members, for a total reach of 7.5 million users. AICTE also plans to deploy Microsoft Office 365 for education when it becomes available later this year, providing access to Microsoft Exchange Online email and calendar, Microsoft SharePoint Online, Microsoft LyncOnline and Microsoft Office Professional as the technical infrastructure to support member colleges and institutes. "Microsoft'...