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Microsoft India Development Center (IDC)
Company type Subsidiary
Industry Computer software
Founded1990  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Headquarters Hyderabad, India [1]
Key people
Rajiv Kumar (MD, IDC), Bush Kattady (operations head)
Number of employees
Over 18,000
Parent Microsoft Corporation
Website www.microsoft.com/en-in/msidc/

Microsoft India Development Center (IDC) is a subsidiary of American software company Microsoft Corporation, headquartered in Hyderabad, India. The company first entered the Indian market in 2002 and has since worked closely with the Indian government, the IT industry, academia and the local developer community to usher in some of the early successes in the IT market. Microsoft currently has offices in the 10 cities of Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, the NCR (New Delhi, Noida and Gurgaon) and Pune. [2]

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As of December 2022, Microsoft employed over 18,000 people in India, [3] up from 8,000 in 2020. [4] and has six business units representing the complete Microsoft product portfolio.

Microsoft India Development Center

Located in Hyderabad, the Microsoft India Development Center (MSIDC) is Microsoft's largest software development center outside of their headquarters in Redmond, Washington. The MSIDC teams focus on strategic and IP sensitive software product development. [5]

Business units

Microsoft India operates the following six business units in India. [6]

  1. Microsoft India (R&D) Private Limited
  2. Microsoft Research India (MSR India)
  3. Microsoft Services Global Delivery (MSGD)
  4. Microsoft Corporation India Pvt. Ltd. (MCIPL)
  5. Microsoft IT India (MSIT India)
  6. Microsoft India Global Technical Support Center (IGTSC)

Notes

  1. UPDATE: Microsoft India: Good Early Response To Windows 7 - WSJ.com
  2. "Microsoft Development Centers | Microsoft India Office Location". Microsoft India en-in. Archived from the original on 31 August 2017.
  3. "Contact Us | Microsoft India". Microsoft . 13 December 2022. Archived from the original on 13 December 2022. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
  4. "Contact Us | Microsoft India". Microsoft . 1 July 2020. Archived from the original on 1 July 2020. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
  5. "Microsoft Showcase: Microsoft India Development Center". Microsoft .
  6. "Software Leader in India | Technology Service Provider | Software Company". www.microsoft.com. Archived from the original on 20 May 2018. Retrieved 21 June 2017.

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