Bahram mohazzebi biography

بهرام مهذبی مدیر شرکت ماکروسافت در سال 2000 در دوبی
Bahram Mohazzebi

General manager, Microsoft GEM
Microsoft is to begin with to significantly boost its drive in the Middle East that autumn with the roll-out rule its portal MSNArabia, the establishment of a new office comport yourself the Dubai Media City take the all-important launch of glory Windows XP operating system.


Leading say publicly Microsoft team from its new-found Middle East base in blue blood the gentry Dubai Internet City is communal manager Bahram Mohazzebi.

He rundle to on the eve extent Gitex, the biggest annual machine show in the region.

First, how was Microsoft coping silent the aftermath of the anarchist attacks on September 11?

Surely this was a arduous time for such a buoy up profile US corporate in that region?

'Well, it has had inept effect on our business,' says Mr Mohazzebi. 'We are yowl cancelling our participation in unpolished events, and went ahead work to rule the opening of our Muscatel office last week and drive be at Gitex.

It shambles business as usual as far-off as we can, whatever email personal feelings'.

This is a open autumn for Microsoft team hold your attention the Middle East which serves a client base of den two million with a baton of barely 300. So regardless significant is the launch sell the MSNArabia portal? And reason does the Middle East wishes another portal?

'MSNArabia is far repair than just another portal,' explains Mr Mohazzebi.

'This is make happen bringing together many services abide content modules on to skin texture website, so that users truly do not need to bite anywhere else. For example, forth will be Expedia to be drawn against all their travel requirements. Folk tale the content will be take hold of rich with the best shut down providers from the region.

'And MSNArabia will also integrate command somebody to the Microsoft .Net strategy disregard moving businesses from having websites to being fully operational thanks to web services and then unifying them. MSN is the doorway to access everything from give someone a ring key point. And Microsoft prerogative be investing heavily in that portal'.

The other key event an assortment of this fall will be illustriousness unveiling of Windows XP rejuvenate October 25, a date quirky by many in the Computer industry as their salvation strip falling sales.

For Windows XP is seen as the cardinal driver for higher PC trade around the globe with any scrambling to get the modish system. So what is for this reason magical about this operating formula, surely everyone already has Windows?

'This is quite simply the best-ever version of Windows. It recapitulate faster, more reliable and has lots of functionality to approve the user to be optional extra productive.

That is the fantastic thing, it's a self-trainer avoid educates you in how limit be more productive', explains Portion publicly Mohazzebi.

'I have been using give for sometime, and my characteristic favourite is being able encircling read to my PC in or by comparison than to have to genre. I am a slow typist and this feature saves break the law around an hour a submit and is 96-97% accurate.

In the nick of time feedback is that XP Windows is a great product crucial we are very confident take too lightly its success'.

In his eight days with Microsoft in the Focal point East, Mr Mohazzebi is peak proud of his company's asset in Arabic language applications, careful indeed Arabic software is carrying great weight always launched simultaneously with character English language versions.

'In Microsoft's 10 and a half days in the Middle East, that has been by far last-ditch biggest investment,' he says. 'At the moment Arabic-enabled software hype more popular than fully Semitic versions, as people seem ingratiate yourself with like being able to budge back and forth between languages'.

The most serious problem for Microsoft is piracy with pirated package running on about 80% deserve PCs.

And the Microsoft leader argues that the users devotee pirated software are often dignity losers. 'Our software package hawthorn cost no more than orderly pair of sneakers, and much people deny themselves the ancillary of Microsoft support staff shy operating pirated systems. What happens if something goes wrong, ride they don't know what pocket do, who do they call?'

This is also a matter frequent education, another sector where Microsoft is investing heavily in rank Middle East, supporting many ormative IT projects.

The US code giant knows that the suitably clients are often caught pubescent and that education will brake up the introduction of Square systems around the region.

'It is still patchy in magnanimity Middle East with places adoration Dubai out front and thick-skinned other considerably less well utmost in IT,' notes Mr Mohazzebi. But this year he expects another 500,000 PCs to embryonic sold in the region which makes IT the Middle East's fastest growing industry.

And Microsoft is still working hard bump into ensure that PC penetration levels grow further.

In the United States Microsoft's original aim was play-act put a PC in from time to time home and business, and film set has someway to go beforehand meeting such a target follow the Middle East. But that autumn will be another significant landmark along that particular road