MSIDC Media Coverage

A team of about 300 engineers of the MS India Development Center (IDC), Hyderabad, which is one of the largest development centres of Microsoft outside the US, was part of the Windows 7 development and several critical components of the new OS were designed and developed by it.

Kalpana Sinha, Director, POC, MSIDC talks about the importance of talent and organisational development initiatives for an IT company

BizTalk RFID Mobile helps manage RFID hardware (a barcode scanner or an RFID reader), saves the tag data on the device and sends it to Microsoft BizTalk RFID for further processing. It can handle network connectivity issues, ensuring that there is no loss of data during the transfer to the server.

Here's an interesting take on how an enterprise application can be made to achieve high performance, scale and high availability, using mid-tier caching.Modern enterprise applications are being pushed to become faster, with a higher scale. Consequently, the 3-tier architecture model is changing to move data closer to the applications and to integrate data from several sources.

In the current economic condition, there is more pressure than ever before on IT departments to deliver business value. Information Technology (IT) is one of the important functions in an organization and is a key value generator. In the current economic condition, there is more pressure than ever before on IT departments to deliver business value, despite challenges such as shrinking budgets, rapidly changing technologies and increasing security issues.

Software giant Microsoft Corp has finalised the product design of its Robust Location Search in what seems to be an effort to challenge popular online mapping and location search systems in the market.

The project has moved out of Microsoft’s labs in Bangalore and into its development centre in Hyderabad. It is all set to be a part of Windows Live, which is the collective brand name given by the IT major to its services and software products.

Microsoft India is probably one of the most coveted workplaces in India. But what is it like to work at one of the world's leading software employers? Rediff.com's Prasanna D Zore caught up with four memebers of the team that shipped Data Protection Manager 2007 out of India from Microsoft India to find out the ups and downs of a career with the software giant. Take a look at what Sunder Srinivasan, principal product unit manager, Kapil Malhotra, senior test manager, Prabu Ambravaneswaran, programme manager and Vanita Prabhu, software development engineer, have to say about their stint with MSIDC and the importance of team effort in building a successful product for the global markets.