Microsoft India files 40 patents
By Hyderabad: | 15 Apr 2005
Hyderabad: The Hyderabad-based Microsoft India Development Centre (MIDC), the company's second center outside its centre in USA, has filed 40 patents in 2004 and expects to add 70 more in 2005.
Srini Koppolu, managing director, Microsoft India R&D centre, "The company's R&D centre has been constantly ramping up size since 1998 from about 20 people to about 500 people now. The nature of work also has been constantly expanding and this centre mirroring development handled out of Redmond."
Koppolu said that 500 product software developers is a big number and the company's top leaders were constantly scouting for talent. He said the company's expansion would continue and is part of the $100 million announced by Bill Gates during his visit to Hyderabad.
He said Microsoft's next phase of India growth would be driven by incubation of new ideas and technology innovation and depends on what the business demands.