Hyderabad, Sept 1: The $3-million Microsoft India Development Centre, which commenced operations on Tuesday, will focus on developing the interoperability of the Windows NT network server operating system and its BackOffice products with non-Microsoft platforms like Unix and Lynex.As large enterprises move to Microsoft Windows NT from other environments, compatibility with other operating systems and platforms is becoming a key requirement, the development centre general manager Srini Koppolu said.
The Hyderabad centre, which is the second such centre outside of Redmond, will initially have 20 engineers. However, the strength is expected to go up to 40 in an year's time. The centre is an extension of the product development teams in Redmond, where close to 20,000 employees work, Koppolu said.
The Hyderabad centre will also be working on the Component Object model (COM+) technologies. These technologies, developed around COM+, will facilitate developers to easily create software components in anylanguage using any development tool.
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