Next breakthrough software app to come from India: Microsoft

04 Apr 2014

The next breakthrough software application would come from India, which develops over 10 per cent of the apps and is home to one of the largest IT industries in the world, Microsoft said reports PTI.

PTI quoted Joseph Landes, general manager, DPE –Microsoft as saying the fact that over 10 per cent of the apps were being developed by Indian citizens was a great thing.

He added, people wanted to tap in and acknowledge the power Indian developers had. He added there was no secret that India had a lot of software developers. Landes was speaking in an interview with PTI, on the sidelines of the Build 2014 -- the annual developer's conference.

He added India should not just to be known in making apps, the next step now was to have that breakthrough app that everyone in the world used, from India.

He added, the next breakthrough app in India was not just possible, it was going to happen.

He added, Microsoft, had focused majorly on the Indian market. He added, in fact, many of its new products including that of Nokia, which it had acquired, were being launched in India ahead of their US launch.

He described the Indian market as of great significance to Microsoft, and added many of the announcements made at its developer's conference were not only applicable to India, but also many of them would be available in there ahead of other countries.