Microsoft plans for expansion in India

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Redmond giant to add more than 400 developers in South India

By John Ribeiro, IDG News Service June 02, 2004

BANGALORE, INDIA -- Microsoft Corp. is planning a number of moves that will increase and potentially consolidate its development activities in India, according to company officials and sources.

Microsoft, based in Redmond, Washington, is increasing the number of staff at its software development center in Hyderabad in the South India state of Andhra Pradesh from 200 to about 500 employees by 2005, according to a company spokeswoman.

This year the company is also increasing the headcount at another center in Hyderabad that handles application development for Microsoft's in-house IT requirements. This center currently employs about 125 staff. Details of the number of staff being added this year were not available from Microsoft, though it is likely to be another 125, according to informed sources.

"We are taking both these operations and combining them at a single facility at Manikonda near Hyderabad," said the spokeswoman, who declined to be named.
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