Microsoft's Live@edu, Office 365 to reach technical colleges across India

All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) have announced that they will deploy Microsoft’s Live@edu to more than 10,000 technical colleges and institutions, across the nation over the next three months. This initiative would make AICTE Microsoft's largest cloud customer ever for a total of 7.5 million users. Live@edu is a hosted communication and collaboration service that offers e-mail, Microsoft Office Web Apps, instant messaging and storage. Microsoft Office 365 will also be deployed by AICTE when it is made available later this year, providing access to Microsoft Exchange Online e-mail and calendar, Microsoft SharePoint Online, Microsoft Lync Online and Microsoft Office Professional.Click here for full story