Tech giant Microsoft is planning to expand its R&D activity across the six functional divisions in India. It is looking towards establishing a separate centre of excellence for its to-be-launched Vista operating system that would work on integration of Vista OS with other systems in a technology environment while also handling migration services.
The India’s development centre of the company at Hyderabad currently consists of around 1,200 employees, of which 500 were added last year. In keeping up with the current rate, it is expected to add 500 more by this year, while the management team has proposed to increase India head-count from 4,000 to 7,000 by the year 2009 only.
India has long enjoyed a reputation as a destination for IT and business process outsourcing. Now, the country is fast emerging as a major center for cutting-edge research and development (R&D) projects for global multinationals such as Microsoft and Motorola as well as Indian firms. More and more companies in industries ranging from IT and telecommunications through pharmaceuticals and biotech are setting up ambitious R&D projects, in part to serve the Indian market, but also with an eye to delivering new generations of products faster to the global market.
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