Microsoft entered India in 1990 and has since worked closely with the Indian government, IT industry, academia and local developer community for ushering in some of the early successes in the realm of IT. Microsoft currently has offices in 16 cities - Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Jamshedpur, Kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, and Pune. Increasingly, Microsoft is becoming a key IT partner to the Indian government and the industry. Since its advent, Microsoft has been supporting and fueling the growth of the local IT industry through its partner enablement programs. Since its entry into India, Microsoft has focused on three things, namely:
- Becoming a key IT partner to the Indian government and the industry
- Supporting and fueling the growth of the local IT industry through its partner enablement programs
- Under Microsoft Unlimited Potential, enhancing education, jobs and opportunities and fostering innovation through relevant, affordable access to computing.
Microsoft in India employs about 5000 people and has six business units in India representing the complete Microsoft product lifecycle. |
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Ravi Venkatesan Chairman, Microsoft India |
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| Venkatesan is responsible for Microsoft's marketing, operational and business development efforts in the country. He plays an integral role in defining Microsoft's relationship with policy makers, customers and business partners across Microsoft's distinct business units in India. |
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| Established in January 2005, MSR India focuses on developing technology for emerging markets, multilingual systems, sensor networks and Geographical Information Systems. Researchers collaborate with leading academic, government, and industry researchers to advance the application of state of the art technologies in the identified areas. |
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| In the last 10 years, Microsoft India Development Center (MSIDC) has witnessed phenomenal growth and received the prestigious Top Innovator Award from Dataquest. Our tradition of innovation has made us the 'most preferred IT company' at India's top engineering colleges. Another high point is our 54-acre campus in Hyderabad to promote excellence in engineering. |
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| Microsoft IT - India, located in Hyderabad, is a seamless extension of the Microsoft IT teams in Redmond. MSIT - India is a six year old organization with talented IT professionals who consider the Centre a great place to build their career dreams and aspirations. MSIT - India is the offshore arm of the strategic Centre´s of Excellence (CoE's) comprising a variety of niche technologies that Microsoft deploys in developing mission critical business applications for internal Microsoft use. |
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| The centre is involved in the architecture and design of large, complex and challenging engagements or solutions based on cutting-edge Microsoft technologies. MGSI has some of the best and the brightest minds in the information technology industry who serve the needs of global clients worldwide for their technology consulting and leading solution development and deployment. In addition, MGSI is tasked to drive the delivery engine for competitive migration activities. |
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| This marketing subsidiary commenced its operations in India in 1990. Today, MCI has offices in 13 cities - Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi and Pune - and looks at the sales and marketing for enterprise, small and mid-market group and consumer segments. |
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| Established in October 2003, the GTSC in Bangalore focuses on providing high level technical resolution services to English-speaking customers and partners across the globe. Part of the Microsoft Customer Service and Support (CSS) organization it supports over 170 Microsoft products. |
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2009: |
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Launch of Windows 7 – Easy to browse, simple to use, quick response, less
clicks, less hassle while connecting to devices, less power consumption. Hence,
less complexity for the consumers.
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2008: |
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Launch of DreamSpark and BizSpark – access to software at no upfront cost
– announced for students and startups, respectively, for enhancing the local
software ecosystem. |
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2007: |
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Unlimited Potential – focused effort on education, innovation, jobs & skills
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2005: |
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Gates visits India, announces $1.7 billion investment focused on innovating in and
for India.
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Microsoft Research launches operations at Microsoft Research India (MSR India),
Bangalore. |
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2003: |
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Project Bhasha announced |
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Partners in Learning (Project Shiksha) launched |
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Microsoft opens Global Technical Support Center (GTSC), in Bangalore.
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2002: |
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Microsoft IT launches operations in India. |
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Gates visits India, announces plan to invest $100 million in Hyderabad center. |
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2000: |
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Gates visits India, announces alliance with Infosys.
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1998: |
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Launch of India Development Center in Hyderabad, India, the second largest development
center outside the US facility in Redmond. |
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1997: |
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Chairman Bill Gates visits India. |
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1990: |
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Microsoft sets up India Operations as Microsoft India Corporation (Pvt) Ltd. in
New Delhi.
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