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IT company Microsoft will train and certify over 1 lakh software developers in India in a month under its pan-India "Future Ready Champions of Code" program, the company said on Tuesday. The month-long programme will be supported by Microsoft's customers and partners incuding Accenture, HCLTech, Icertis, Infosys, InMobi, OYO, PayU, TCS, Tech Mahindra, udaan, VerSe Innovation, Wibmo (A PayU company) and Wipro among others with a focus to fast-track competency development among their developer teams, the company said in a statement. As a part of the programme, developers will be provided resources online to learn, practice, earn net new or renew Microsoft cloud certifications. Microsoft India, Executive Director for Customer Success, Aparna Gupta said India has become an innovation powerhouse with one of the fastest growing developer communities and Microsoft recognises the creativity, innovation, and passion of developers to build technology that is driving the nation's growth. "Wi
The software market in India is estimated to surpass USD 8.2 billion by the end of the calendar year 2021, according to research firm IDC. India software market was pegged at USD 4 billion in the first half of 2021, registering a growth of 15.9 per cent year-over-year (YoY), as per IDC's Worldwide Semiannual Software Tracker 1H21 (January-June) report. India accounted for a share of 18.3 per cent of the overall Asia-Pacific excluding Japan and China (APeJC) region software market during the January-June 2021 period, it added. Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP maintained their leadership position in the India market during the first half of the year. "Indian enterprises are continuing their digital transformation initiatives with a clear focus on scalable, secure and agile frameworks. They ramped up investments on cloud for scalability, AI to leverage data accurately and serve the clients more efficiently, and security to protect their network and systems with greater emphasis on SASE and