Microsoft to double Hyderabad workforce
By agencies   |   Friday, 05 May 2006, 19:30 IST
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CHENNAI: The Indian arm of worldÂ’s biggest IT giant, Microsoft India plans to double its workforce at Hyderabad and is recruiting people of Indian origin in the U.S., according to Rebecca DuBose Ward, Director, Intellectual Property & Licensing, Microsoft India (R&D) Pvt Ltd. Addressing an Indo-US seminar and workshop on IPR enforcement, she said that the company was planning to double the numbers of employees at its software development center in Hyderabad, where it employs over 800 people currently. The company was also working at reversing the brain drain and recruiting people of Indian origin to work here. India is in a transition phase and moving from a "renter of intellectual property to producer of intellectual property." Microsoft's employees tend to strike out on their own and that could happen in India too. This would mean that they would expect protection for their intellectual property. India would need strong intellectual property regime under such conditions, she said.

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