The Hindu Business Line : Microsoft sees more using its platform, tool

Hyderabad March 8 Over half a million software professional developers and a large student community are working with Microsoft technologies and frameworks in India and Microsoft Corporation says this number is poised to grow significantly, driven by innovative projects.

The software giant continues to incubate new ideas while helping the growing family of developers with platforms and tools to ensure that they end up with intellectual property (IP) creation.

These innovations are mainly in the areas of mobile and wireless technology, parallel programming to meet the requirements of multi-core processors, SaaS (software as a service), and enhanced features for improving Office productivity.

Based out of Redmond, the Corporate Vice-President, Developer Division, Microsoft Corporation, Mr S. Somasegar, said Microsoft was playing the role of a catalyst in helping the developer community ensure that its efforts mature into solutions.

Mr Somasegar told Business Line that the India Devlopment has played a significant role over the years in contributing to the Microsoft family of products, including Windows Vista OS, where over 300 engineers worked.

Apart from incubating new technology ideas, IDC teams are working on the Office Business Application (OBA) project that seeks to enhance the data integration of Outlook and Word with enterprise resource planning applications.

The Dual project, which integrates MS and SAP applications, was handled out of the IDC, he said.

India has commands a sixth of the world's population and a large talent base. This is now being complemented complimented by role played by the role of Indian system integrators — TCS, Wipro and Infosys — in the global marketplace along with a the number of ISVs (independent software vendors).

Mr Somasegar said, "We at Microsoft over the last 31 years have always felt that there is a gap between demand and supply of quality researchers. Microsoft is all about human capital and sometimes paucity of right research talent limits the aspirations to develop more innovative software."

"The venture capital funding in India is going up significantly resulting in the growth of a number of technology companies. This has meant the necessity to create a virtual software developers' community. As a part of our initiatives we share our expertise, technology platforms and developer tools, bringing in collaborative innovation," he said.

There are two types of software developers — those who develop software and those who create user interface, and there is a wall Chinese Wall between the two. Microsoft efforts would be to ensure that they work as a team, he said.

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