New Delhi, Nov. 14 -- Biocon founder Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw believes the recent global Microsoft outage creates an opportunity for Sridhar Vembu-led Zoho to offer its services as a viable alternative. In a post on social media and subsequent responses to users, she said the homegrown brand is well-positioned to make a move.

Mazumdar-Shaw took to X (formerly known as Twitter), to react to the Microsoft outage. She termed it "an unexpected opportunity for Zoho to be an alternate backup MIS for India Inc given such unforeseen events". MIS is management information system.

Notably, Microsoft on Saturday said it has fully restored its flagship software and ended an outage that paralysed government offices, traders and businesses around the worl...