MIDC managing director Srini Koppolu told reporters Thursday that the centre, which started with 20 people, now had 500 skilled professionals in the software and cutting edge technology development.
A key contributor to the overall business of Microsoft, the centre has filed 40 patents during the last financial year and plans to file another 70 patents this year. He said that work was underway on many key projects and innovative ideas.
"We do more cutting edge technology work, more patents will be coming out of this development centre. The Hyderabad centre will become a mirror image of Microsoft Redmond," he said.
"MIDC focuses on projects that are strategic and long-term oriented," he added.
Some of the key development initiatives at MIDC are Data Protection Manager, RFID Platform Technologies, Office Mobile, Windows SFU, features of Longhorn, Visual Studio, Office Live Meeting and MS-CRM.
Making a key contribution to Windows XP SP2 through the introduction of quarantine features to make the operating system highly secure was one of the major successes of this centre.
