Microsoft expands India's sales network: It will use cloud computing to counter piracy

Microsoft hopes India will become its fifth-largest market in the next 3-5 years. By revenue, Microsoft's revenue in India is 1.2 billion dollars a year, ranked seventh after Canada. Microsoft's largest market for the United States, followed by Japan, then the United Kingdom, France and Germany.

India contributes 810 million dollars a year to Microsoft, according to Dataquest data. Jon Roskill, director of the Microsoft Global Partnership Group (wordwide http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/16860.html >partner Group), said Microsoft has laid a good foundation in India and business is growing strongly. Joen Roskille, who runs a team of 5,000 employees and has 64,000 partners, accounts for 95% of Microsoft's 62 billion-dollar annual revenue.

In the slowdown, Microsoft expanded aggressively in India, expanding from 13 cities to 300 cities with 7,500 partners in its sales network.

Roskill said: "India's growth is still in its infancy, especially in small and small businesses, and we are delighted." Over the past few years, we have expanded from 13 cities to 300. It does help us expand our geographical coverage. Our partners will welcome business growth. ”

Dataquest said that India was one of the fastest growing regions in Microsoft, and that in the Indian region between April 2009 and March 2010, Microsoft received more revenue than SAP and Oracle combined.

But Microsoft also faces a big problem in India: piracy.

According to the Business Software Alliance, about 65% of India's software is pirated, and the loss of revenue from piracy in 2009 is about $2 billion trillion. Microsoft is betting on cloud computing to counter piracy. "In the next five years, we want 20% of our revenue to be obtained through the cloud computing model," Roskill said. ”

Roskill said the US has a one-year lead in cloud computing, with 5% of Microsoft's U.S. Exchange messaging system now being implemented through cloud computing. Roskill thinks this ratio will reach 8% by the end of this year.