New Delhi: Microsoft Corporation Chairman Bill Gates on Wednesday said that the company would invest $1.7 billion in India over the next four years.
The amount is to be deployed across select focus areas in line with Microsoft's strategic vision for India, he said in New Delhi.
The company would also spent making India a major hub of Microsoft's research, product and application development, services and technical support for both global and domestic companies.
Bill Gates said that the company will scale up its India operations by increasing the headcount by 3,000 over three to four years, taking the total strength to 7,000.
"We depend on India for manpower that is why we are scaling operations in India. We have 4,000 people today and we are hiring as fast as we can," Bill Gates said at the CII-CEO Forum.
"The percentage increase in employees would be the highest in India," he said.
Further expansion
Microsoft currently has three centres in the country - India Development Centre at Hyderabad, an R&D and Global Technical Support Centre in Bangalore.
Gates said that that with regard to handwriting and speech recognition software Microsoft would work with Indian experts to make sure it applies to all broadly used languages.
"India has a fantastic pool of software professionals. The world needs to benefit from this. I never thought with so little product companies software services sector will grow so strong as it has grown in India," said Gates.
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