MSIDC Media Coverage

International Women’s day this year is going to bring cheers among engineering students from the fairer sex with the software giant Microsoft conducting recruitment drive exclusively for them in 100 campuses across the country. Those selected will get to work at the Microsoft India Development Centre (MSIDC) in Hyderabad.

Chitra Sood, staffing director at the Microsoft India Development Center shares her thoughts on Women's Day, the secrets to her success and her advice to young girls just starting out on their careers.

A small team of about a dozen researchers started with the dream of developing software solutions that help people across geographies, using multiple devices, to connect and collaborate. Three years later, they are about 100 of them, sitting on a clutch of products with potential for about 12 patents, five of them already in the kitty.

Jeanne Sheldon, corporate vice-president (office authoring solutions), Microsoft, leads the product development teams for Microsoft Office Word, OneNote, Office Publisher and Microsoft Works — applications that are a central part of the MS Office system. Sheldon has been associated with Microsoft since 1989.

Microsoft has forayed into storage solutions on the back of Data Protection Manager 2007, launched globally in November last year. DPM 2007 delivers continuous data protection through disk and tape media for all Microsoft application and file servers.

From 20 employees in 1998 to now -- nine years later -- over 1,400 employees and still counting... That, in a nutshell, sums up the galloping growth story at Microsoft India Development Centre, Hyderabad. MSIDC is the product development centre of Microsoft based out of Hyderabad. It is a pure product development centre where engineers work on end-to-end product development of key Microsoft products and technologies.

Stuti Shukla explodes the notion that marketing, creating business strategy, and product planning are the domain of men. Stuti is the Group Manager for the Emerging Market Incubations Group at Microsoft India Development Center, Hyderabad. She leads the new product planning team for the emerging market.

Kurt DelBene talks about MS Dynamics Customer Relationship Management Live-the first enterprise resource planning (ERP) related product to be simultaneously available offline and online. This product is being developed at its Redmond centre (USA) in collaboration with the India Development Centre in Hyderabad.

RFID already is being used to some extent in several business sectors, including manufacturing, health care, transportation, defense, retail, and agriculture, said Srini Koppolu, corporate vice-president of Microsoft India Development Center (MSIDC) . The market potential is huge, he added.