IMPACT OF MICROSOFT ON ME AND MY ROLE AS MSA

LET ME START BY SHARING A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY .

IT WAS THE LATE 90’S WHEN THE INDIAN OFFICES AND HOUSEHOLDS GOT ACQUAINTED WITH A DEVICE.

WHAT WAS IT?? A COMPUTER?

YES A COMPUTER OF COURSE………PEOPLE THOUGHT OF IT AS A BRILLIANT MACHINE THAT COULD NOT ONLY COMPUTE BUT ALSO COMMUNICATE,SAVE TIME A LOT OF TIME BY DOING THOSE TASKS WHICH REQUIRED THE USE OF PEN AND PAPER EARLIER,ENTERTAIN PEOPLE,ETC. AND IT CAME IN AS A WAY OF LIFE.

 BUT PEOPLE DID NOT REALIZE THAT THE BRAIN OF THAT MACHINE THAT WAS THE CPU WAS THE PART OF THE MACHINE WHERE ALL THE THINGS GOT DONE……….SO NEXT THEY STARTED THINKING WHO MIGHT HAVE DESIGNED THAT BRAIN THAT DOES ALL THE WORK SO EFFICIENTLY AND ACCURATELY.

THEREBY OUT OF CURIOUSITY THEY LEARNT THAT THERE IS SOMETHING CALLED AN OS(OPERATING SYSTEM) ON WHICH THE COMPUTER RUNS.

AND THEN BY AND BY, PEOPLE OVERCAME EACH QUESTION …….ULTIMATELY THEY REACHED A POINT WHEN THEY REALIZED THAT THE OS THAT THEY LEARNT ABOUT A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO WAS ACTUALLY NAMED  “W I N D O W S” AND THE COMPANY THAT MANUFACTURES THESE OS’S WAS NAMED             “M I C R O S O F T “  WHICH WAS OWENED BY A PERSON NAMED “BILL GATES”.

THE TIME BY WHICH THEY GATHERED SO MUCH OF INFORMATION ,THEY HAD ALREADY USED THE PC (SO CALLED COMPUTER) FOR QUITE A COUPLE OF YEARS.BY THAT TIME THE INDIAN MARKETS HAD FLOODED WITH THESE PC’S OUT OF POPULARITY AND DEMAND.

THEY DID NOT REALIZE WHAT THEY WERE USING,BUT WHEN THEY LOOKED DOWN THE LANE THEY REALIZED THAT HOW ARDUOUS ,DIFFICULT,DULL AND TOILSOME THEIR LIVES WOULD HAVE BEEN WITHOUT THESE MACHINES.

PEOPLE PURCHASED THESE PC’S AS IF BLINDFOLDED,TRUSTING THE OS.

“FOR THEM A COMPUTER WAS NOT A COMPUTER ENOUGH THAT DID NOT HAVE WINDOWS.

NEITHER THEY KNEW NOR THEY COULD THINK OF ANYTHING ELSE OTHER THAN WINDOWS.

FOR THEM A PC MEANT WINDOWS.

FOR THEM APPLE WAS STILL A FRUIT THAT WAS RED IN COLOR AND LINUX WAS AN ALIEN STUFF…. SOMETHING THEY HAD NOT HEARD ABOUT LATELY.

THIS IS EXACTLY HOW MOST OF THE  INDIANS (INCLUDING ME) GOT TO KNOW ABOUT IT INITIALLY.

IT WAS ONLY A FEW YEARS BACK THAT I GOT KNOW ABOUT THE “I OS” AND APPLE LAPTOPS AND MACBOOKS AND LINUX/UBUNTU SYSTEMS AND ON AND ON.

WHEN I LOOK BACK FROM NOW AND THINK ABOUT THE PAST I REALIZE THAT FOR WHAT NOT HAD I USED A WINDOWS FOR.

STARTING FROM THE TIME WHEN I WAS VERY YOUNG ,MY PARENTS BOUGHT ME SOME CD’S OF INTERACTIVE EDUCATIONAL GAMES THAT I ENJOYED PLAYING ON THE PC.

AS I GREW UP MY SCHOOL REQUIRED ME TO PREPARE PROJECTS WHICH WAS ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE WITHOUT THE  TOOLS THAT WINDOWS GAVE ME.

I HAD TO GET A LETTER PRINTED…….I USED MICROSOFT WORD.

EARLIER MY ONLY CONTACT TO THE OUTSIDE WORLD WAS INTERNET EXPLORER.

I HAD TO PRESENT SEMINARS I USED MICROSOFT POWER POINT.

AT SOME POINT I WAS GIVEN THE RESPONSIBILITY OF COLLECTING THE DETAILS OF CERTAIN PEOPLE……..I KEPT THE PEN AND PAPER ASIDE AND OPENED UP MICROSOFT EXCEL.

BASICALLY THE WHOLE OF MY EDUCATION WAS SUPPORTED BY THE MS OFFICE.

AND THEN CAME MULTIMEDIA……………

WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER ONE OF THE BEST THINGS THOSE DAYS AS I WAS A MUSIC LOVER.

I ALSO REMEMBER THOSE FUNNY IMAGES I MADE AND INDULGED ALL MY CREATIVITY INTO IT……..YES…….USING PAINT…..WHEN I WAS A CHILD.

NEXT I HAD TO PREPARE A PROPER MUSIC VIDEO OF ONE OF MY MUSIC PERFORMANCES,

THANKS TO THE MOVIE MAKER,IT HELPED ME DO THAT.

I GREW UP A LITTLE MORE AND STARTED A BIT OF CODING.WHILE I WAS CODING WEBPAGES WITH HTML……….I COULD NOT THINK OF IT WITHOUT USING NOTEPAD.

ALSO LATER I LEARNT THAT MANY GAMES THAT I PLAYED LIKE “AGE OF MYTHOLOGY” AND “AGE OF EMPIRES”……CAME FROM THE MICROSOFT STUDIOS AS WELL.

EVEN MY FATHER USED THE MICROSOFT OUTLOOK……….HE SEEMED REALLY SATISFIED WITH IT

AND NOW THE  LATEST BUZZ……”THE WINDOWS PHONE”

I MEAN……..

MICROSOFT  WAS A WAY OF MY LIFE……A CERTAIN THING THAT I COULD NOT LIVE WITHOUT……………………………………

THE PRESENCE OF MICROSOFT IN MY LIFE WAS PERPETUAL.

STILL COUNTING…………STAYING IN THE HOSTEL ……SKYPE BRINGS MY FAMILY MEMBERS CLOSE TO ME.

MICROSOFT BEING THE MOST USER FRIENDLY ,IS CHOSEN BY THE MASS.

MICROSOFT HAD BEEN LIKE A MEMBER OF THE FAMILY ………..HENCE I WANT TO GET REAL CLOSE TO MICROSOFT . THAT’S WHY I WANT TO ENROLL MYSELF IN THE ”MSA(MICROSOFT STUDENT ASSOCIATE)” PROGRAM SO AS TO LEARN A LOT ABOUT MICROSOFT AND EVEN TELL PEOPLE ABOUT IT,ABOUT THE VARIOUS PRODUCTS MICROSOFT HAS,THE TOOLS THAT MICROSOFT GIVES US, AND BECOME AN EVANGELIST FOR MICROSOFT,INDIA.

I WISH TO TELL THE FOLKS WHAT MICROSOFT HAS BEEN DOING FOR THEM AND WHAT ALL BENEFITS THEY RECEIVED ALL THESE YEARS.

I WILL BE BASICALLY ACTING AS A BRIDGE OR A LINK THAT WILL CONNECT THE COMMON MAN TO THE UNIVERSE OF MICROSOFT.

PEOPLE WILL START KNOWING MICROSOFT LIKE NEVER BEFORE.

AND WHEN THEY HAVE THE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT MICROSOFT AND ITS POWERFUL TOOLS ………………………………………… ……….PEOPLE WILL BUY MICROSOFT PRODUCTS MORE OFTEN,THEY WILL RELY MORE ON MICROSOFT THAN ANY OTHER,THEY WILL EXPLORE THE MAGICAL WORLD OF MICROSOFT………………AND FINALLY IT WILL CREATE A MASSIVE……….REALLY MASSIVE  SENSATION……!!!