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Microsoft India aims to create new opportunities in education: expands 'Partners in Learning' program

Consider the beta.

Beta testing has been the cornerstone of the software development process for Microsoft and most other commercial software makers for as long as they've been writing software. But if certain powers-that-be in Redmond, Wash., have their way, betas may soon be a thing of the past for Microsoft, its partners and its customers.
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What's behind the shift?

Beta builds are predictable milestones by which external and internal testers have measured their progress toward the delivery of final code. Betas are typically few and far between, and feedback on them tends to be late and sometimes lame. But they are nonetheless a known quantity, and one that software developers, OEM partners and customers of all sizes rely on in gauging when and how to support a new product.

REECODE (REmodel ECOnomic DEvelopment of India)

- Over 65 per cent of India's population is in rural areas.
- All marketeers have failed/have had tough time selling to the rural mass.
- Cities are choking.
- Development is too polarised, with opportunities/wealth getting concentrated in urban areas.
- There is an urgent need to significantly improve the purchasin power of the rural population.

***** - Here, I see a business opportunity worth Rs 60,000 crore per annum, i.e. about US $ 13 Billion per annum (in sales, not just market value of IPO paper).

Power point presentation on the project as well as inital study reports in the urban and rural areas of Ujjain District of Madhya Pradesh state are available on request.