By silicon.com, 3 October 2003 09:12
NEWS Microsoft will double the number of developers in India over the next five years and spend $100m beefing up its operations there. The company is already one of the largest offshorers in India with up to a quarter of the $8bn spent on offshoring in the country coming from Microsoft alone. According to a Times of India report, there are today around 3,000 companies and over 250,000 developers in the country contracted to the Microsoft. Simon Witts, a Microsoft corporate vice president, said as more multinational IT companies migrated operations to India, his company too would grow its presence in order to service them, according to the report. As for the unhappiness in the US over the movement of jobs to offshore sites like India, Witts was quoted as saying that "no one can have protective policies for businesses which are global in nature. Work should be done where skills are available". The boom in Indian IT services was responsible for Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee making the top ten of silicon.com's Agenda Setters for 2003. Staff CNET Asia
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