A philanthropic arm of the US software will donate the amount during the coming three years to 70,000 non-profit groups and researchers.
New Delhi:
Microsoft announced its plan to put a billion dollars' worth of cloud computing power in the hands of non-profit groups and university researchers free of charge.
A philanthropic arm of the US software will donate the amount during the coming three years to 70,000 non-profit groups and researchers, said chief executive Satya Nadella at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
-"Among the questions being asked in Davos are these: If cloud computing is one of the most important transformations of our time, how do we ensure that its benefits are universally accessible -" Nadella said.
The philanthropic move comes as Microsoft continues adapting to a trend of people economically renting software as services in the Internet cloud instead of buying and installing programs on their machines.
-"A careful read of those goals reveals the central role that data and cloud computing must play for analysis and action.-"
Microsoft chief legal counsel Brad Smith said the massive computing power available in the cloud can help researchers mine insights and secrets from data.
