Microsoft India Development Center (MSIDC), Hyderabad , celebrated its ninth anniversary. As part of the celebrations, MSIDC employees showcased their talent at a cultural program. The evening was marked by a sterling performance by well-known singer KK who had the crowd on their feet and singing to his tunes. The program was organized at the Hyderabad International Convention Center (HICC).

MSIDC, which is Microsoft's second largest product development center outside its headquarters in Redmond , commenced operations in Hyderabad in 1998 with about 20 people under the leadership of Srini Koppolu. Today its headcount has reached around 1300 and the center is working on new products, technologies and features for Microsoft globally.  MSIDC is a leader in creating intellectual property from India with teams having end-to-end responsibility on more than 50 Microsoft products, features or technologies shipped for global markets. The center has filed around 180 patents in the last three years. MSIDC's recent achievements have been with regard to Windows Vista . Nearly 300 engineers at MSIDC were responsible for end-to-end ownership of 25 critical components of the OS, including the virtual private network, routing and remote access service and dynamic host configuration protocols.

MSIDC holds end to end responsibility in developing Virtual PC 2007, which was released in March 2007. MSIDC has also established itself as a Mobility Center of Excellence having full responsibility for Office Communicator Mobile, SQL Mobile (recently renamed SQL Everywhere), Office Mobile and Visual Studio for Devices. The Microsoft RFID platform is being developed in Hyderabad . The center also has complete responsibility for developing the Data Protection Manager. The teams have added many significant features to Visual Studio, Visual Studio Team System, Windows One Care Live, MS-CRM, Office Live, developed platform components for MSN and expertise on Real Time Collaboration, Education, Casual Games and Serviceability businesses. They also demonstrated their expertise in integration of Microsoft Office applications with back-end ERP systems by developing Microsoft Dynamics SNAP and Duet for Microsoft Office in association with SAP.

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