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IBA
Teams Up with Microsoft to Enable Hosted E-Mail Service |
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IBA
has partnered with Microsoft to enhance education by building an
advanced technology infrastructure. As part of this continued
partnership, IBA is now providing free, hosted e-mail, messaging and
collaborative services to all students, alumni, faculty and staff for
life. The service is available via the Microsoft's Windows Live Hotmail
platform for all users with the IBA domain name: At a Microsoft sponsored event at the Pearl Continental Hotel that was attended by the Microsoft Worldwide Academic Director Ms. Kimberly Voltero, and a number of senior participants from the academia and industry, Mr. Danishmand, Dean and Director of IBA stated "This partnership service between IBA and Microsoft will give students, alumni and faculty members the highest quality access to e-mail and collaborative services. The objective is to facilitate communications among all stake holders of the IBA and to encourage establishment of an IBA community which can easily communicate amongst themselves." The establishment of this service also demonstrates the positive impact of IBA and Microsoft to work together in helping build a state-of-the-art infrastructure for the IBA community to communicate with each other. Furthermore, it highlights Microsoft's continued commitment to education by helping educational institutions realize their potential through the use of technology. Dr. Sayeed Ghani, Chairman IBA Center for Computer Studies, stated that "Collaboration on the technological front with Microsoft ensures that IBA students, alumni and faculty have access to state-of-the-art technology. We take pride in introducing this service for the first time in Pakistan which has been achieved with the help of Microsoft, M/S Inbox and the IBA MIS/IT team. The details of how to obtain an account with the Windows Live Edu service with the IBA domain name are available on the IBA website: http://www.iba.edu.pk/live-email.htm. We hope that this service will go a long way in ensuring that the IBA community can easily stay in touch with each other and to be able to communicate effectively." For
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Karachi,
Pakistan, June 21, 2007: Institute of Business Administration (IBA) and
Microsoft announced today that they had together achieved the very first
implementation of Windows Live @ edu in Pakistan at the IBA in
Karachi.