Indian Schools deploy Microsoft Live@edu

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

 

In a move to provide superior education to students with collaborative learning tools, reputed schools like Delhi Public School, American School of Bombay and KR Mangalam have adopted Microsoft Live@edu, a cloud-based service. It enables institutions in brand building, social and professional collaboration, knowledge repository that leads to career opportunities.

Microsoft Live@edu is a no-charge suite of communication and collaboration tools for students, faculty, staff and alumni that enable access to Microsoft Office Outlook Live for e-mail, Microsoft Office Live Workspace to share documents and collaborate, Windows Live Messenger for instant messaging, and Windows Live SkyDrive for 25 GB of online data storage space.

"It is encouraging to see schools adopting and promoting a technology-enhanced environment. Microsoft Live@edu simplifies online collaboration, increases productivity with its ability to participate in online tutorials, collaborate on assignments, interacting with peers and faculty, and build lifelong relationships with their educational institution. We have a huge base of mailboxes activated across schools and colleges in the country," said Tarun Malik, Director, Product Marketing, Microsoft India.

Microsoft also announced its largest cloud deployment ever with the implementation of Live@Edu at AICTE. The deployment will bring on-board over 7 million students and 0.5 million faculty members to the Microsoft Cloud platform.

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