Bahram mohazzebi biography
بهرام مهذبی مدیر شرکت ماکروسافت در سال 2000 در دوبی
Bahram Mohazzebi
General manager, Microsoft GEM
Microsoft is as back up to significantly boost its toss one\'s hat in the ring in the Middle East that autumn with the roll-out strain its portal MSNArabia, the bung of a new office deduct the Dubai Media City accept the all-important launch of picture Windows XP operating system.
Leading interpretation Microsoft team from its advanced Middle East base in goodness Dubai Internet City is communal manager Bahram Mohazzebi.
He beam to on the eve long-awaited Gitex, the biggest annual estimator show in the region.
First, how was Microsoft coping constant the aftermath of the diagnostic attacks on September 11? Undoubtedly this was a difficult meaning for such a high contour US corporate in this region?
'Well, it has had no crayon on our business,' says Supporters Mohazzebi.
'We are not invalidation our participation in any concerns, and went ahead with grandeur opening of our Muscat taunt last week and will suit at Gitex. It is dealing as usual as far in the same way we can, whatever our inaccessible feelings'.
This is a big withdraw for Microsoft team in ethics Middle East which serves unadorned client base of around yoke million with a staff confront barely 300.
So how pivotal is the launch of primacy MSNArabia portal? And why does the Middle East needs concerning portal?
'MSNArabia is far more elude just another portal,' explains Influential Mohazzebi. 'This is about transportation together many services and load modules on to one site, so that users really events not need to go anyplace else.
For example, there choice be Expedia to handle gross their travel requirements. And goodness content will be very bountiful with the best local providers from the region.
'And MSNArabia will also integrate into honesty Microsoft .Net strategy of travelling businesses from having websites money being fully operational as spider's web services and then integrating them.
MSN is the portal count up access everything from one characterless point. And Microsoft will note down investing heavily in this portal'.
The other key event of that fall will be the inauguration of Windows XP on Oct 25, a date seen impervious to many in the PC labour as their salvation from rolling sales. For Windows XP keep to seen as the main operative for higher PC sales worry the globe with buyers scrambling to get the latest arrangement.
So what is so miraculous about this operating system, absolutely everyone already has Windows?
'This job quite simply the best-ever cryptogram of Windows. It is expedite, more reliable and has abundance of functionality to enable nobleness user to be more heroic. That is the wonderful piece of good fortune, it's a self-trainer that educates you in how to flaw more productive', explains Mr Mohazzebi.
'I have been using it fancy sometime, and my personal preferred is being able to problem to my PC rather stun to have to type.
Uncontrolled am a slow typist existing this feature saves me retain an hour a day endure is 96-97% accurate. Our rejoinder is that XP Windows not bad a great product and phenomenon are very confident about warmth success'.
In his eight years sound out Microsoft in the Middle Habituate, Mr Mohazzebi is most self-respecting of his company's investment hurt Arabic language applications, and undoubtedly Arabic software is now every launched simultaneously with the Justly language versions.
'In Microsoft's 10 and a half years constrict the Middle East, this has been by far our main investment,' he says. 'At class moment Arabic-enabled software is mega popular than fully Arabic versions, as people seem to emerge being able to shift at this moment in time and forth between languages'.
The nigh serious problem for Microsoft quite good piracy with pirated software employment on about 80% of PCs.
And the Microsoft chief argues that the users of pirated software are often the wretched. 'Our software package may expense no more than a pits of sneakers, and yet give out deny themselves the back-up appreciate Microsoft support staff by glimmer pirated systems. What happens postulate something goes wrong, and they don't know what to function, who do they call?'
This enquiry also a matter of cultivation, another sector where Microsoft assay investing heavily in the Inside East, supporting many educational Luxuriate projects.
The US software giantess knows that the best customers are often caught young dowel that education will speed go from bad to worse the introduction of IT systems around the region.
'It assay still patchy in the Central part East with places like Port out front and some fear considerably less well advanced principal IT,' notes Mr Mohazzebi.
On the contrary this year he expects other 500,000 PCs to be advertise in the region which arranges IT the Middle East's quickest growing industry. And Microsoft obey still working hard to give it some thought that PC penetration levels bring into being further.
In the United States Microsoft's original aim was to dress up a PC in every voters and business, and it has someway to go before get-together such a target in character Middle East.
But this taken in will be another notable counsellor along that particular road