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Innovating from India to drive global business growth and empower the next billion customers in emerging markets
Leaderspeak: Celebrating 10 Years of Innovation at MSIDC
  • Bill Gates
    Chairman
  • Steve Ballmer
    Chief Executive
    Officer
  • Ray Ozzie
    Chief Software
    Architect
  • Lisa Brummel
    Senior VP
    HR
The Microsoft® India Development Center (MSIDC) is innovating and incubating technologies and products which impact millions of Microsoft customers worldwide. Starting with two products and 20 employees in 1998, MSIDC has grown over the last 10 years to 1500 plus employees.

Our teams own complex technical problems and engineer products end-to-end from India. MSIDC has contributed to the filing of 220 patents by Microsoft Corp in the last four years and also received the Top Innovator Award from Dataquest in 2006.

MSIDC is now building deep missions in each of its 20 plus focus areas which span across all six Microsoft businesses.

We are the most preferred IT company at India’s top engineering colleges and continue to invest in people development and engineering excellence initiatives. Our employee initiatives are aimed at building strong technical capabilities around the various career profiles that we offer and grooming the next generation Microsoft leaders from MSIDC.

Our sprawling 54 acre campus in Hyderabad has recently won The Acer, Intel & Economic Times Smart Workplace award 2008. Designed to mirror Redmond quality standards, the facility offers our employees a lively environment combining the best of technology with great recreational amenities, thereby helping them achieve a healthy work-life balance.

      Meet Srini    (+)
Srini Koppolu
Corporate Vice President & Managing Director –MSIDC

Srini joined Microsoft in February 1989 and has been involved in many V1 initiatives. Srini established the Microsoft India Development Center (MSIDC) in 1998 and nurtured it to be come the largest product development center outside headquarters in Redmond. Under his leadership, the MSIDC has increase its R&D investments to successfully tap into India’s talent and market opportunities. In Srini's own words: "It's been an incredible experience so far, building a team of 1500 plus very smart people developing core Microsoft technologies and products. It's been possible only because of the great talent, experience and leadership of the many key people who have joined me in creating this organization."

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