ODESA, DECEMBER 23rd, 2010, CONTEXT-PRICHERNOMORIE — Microsoft Ukraine General Director Dmitry Shimkiv says customer feedback to be a vital part of developing products for MS, Context-Prichernomorie correspondent reports.

Mr Shimkiv stated it today, 23 December, in his exclusive interview to the agency, commenting on the statement by Joyce Fernandes MS Director for State-Private Partnership saying the company is becoming a strategic partner of Ukrainian National Project Open World: Creation of Informational-Communicational Educational Network of the National 4G Level.

“MS is ready to take part in the national school informatization project, having provided not only the social conditions to purchase the software, but our experience in implementing suchlike programmes in other countries. We believe accessibility of all schoolchildren to information technology is the ground for their competitiveness at the labour market in the future and development of Ukrainian economy in whole”, he said.