Windows 8 for the "People"s Computer"
As part of a long-term project "People's Computer" local Microsoft subsidiary is ready to implement large-scale supplies to Azerbaijan of the operating system Windows 8. According to the director of Microsoft Azerbaijan Rufat Gadzhialibekov, there have started talks on further participation in the project.
By the beginning of this year, as part of the program, completed 20 thousand 284 computer with an investment of 13 million manat.
Gadzhialibekov also said that Microsoft has already announced an operating system Windows 9, in addition, contracts for the supply of leading consumers and distributors to its first samples.
In fact, all of the products under the well-known global brand adapted to the carrier of the Azerbaijani language, but there is a prospect of growth. Thus, the joint working group of the corporation, the Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies of Azerbaijan and independent experts are working to update the term base and language of the Azerbaijani version of the operating system Windows. - 17D-
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