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Tuesday, November 30, 2004
 

Sometimes when I stop blogging for a while, it's simply because I've been very busy at work.

This is very exciting news for us at Microsoft Research. India has a young, vibrant and rapidly growing research community. Equally important, there are some critical research questions for which India is one of the best places in the world; for example, research in multi-lingual technologies and computing for emerging markets. Together, these are great reasons to open a lab there.

MSR India isn't going to be a large organization anytime soon; in all of our 6 labs (I need to get used to saying that) we hire based upon finding great, talented researchers, not just simply to fill up a headcount quota, so we tend to be very patient. If we're wildly successful, in a year we might have a couple dozen people there.

It's a great time to be in MSR. All of our labs are growing and taking on new, interesting projects.  And around the world we're spending more time and effort working collaboratively with the larger research community to advance the state of the art in computing.

 


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