Company overview
- Sector
- Technology, Software & IT Services
- Sub-sector
- Information Technology & Services
- Mandate (derived)
- Technology & Engineering
- Parent headquarters
- Redmond, Washington, United States
- Parent revenue (USD)
- $281,700,000,000
- Parent headcount
- 220,349
- India headcount
- 8,000+
GCC locations
- Hyderabad
- Bengaluru
- Noida
GCC notes
1.2 million sq ft campus opened 2025; core engineering for Azure and enterprise products
Department mix
Global department counts, used as a proxy for the India mandate. These are not India team counts.
Technology stack
- .NET
- 3M 360 Encompass - Health Analytics Suite
- A Small Orange
- ABAP
- ADAPT
- ADP
- ADX Studio
- AI
- AMD Xilinx
- AMP
- ANGEL LMS
- ARES
- ASP.NET
- AT&T
- AWS Analytics
Public leadership
Anish Chandy
Country Head - AI Business Solutions
Public leadership listed in the dataset; the role is not necessarily the India GCC head.
Key roles
Software Engineers (Azure/Bing/Teams); ML Engineers; Product Managers; Data Scientists; Cybersecurity Engineers
Research overview
Microsoft Corporation, founded April 4, 1975, headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Chairman & CEO Satya Nadella. FY2025 revenue: US$281.7 billion; ~228,000 employees globally per Wikipedia (facts-on-file lists 220,349).
- India launch
- 1998
- Maturity
- Mature - Core Global Engineering & Innovation Hub
28-year-old center (since 1998) described by Microsoft as one of its largest R&D facilities outside the US, doing core engineering for Azure/Cloud & AI/enterprise products; sustained capital investment (new 1.1M sq ft Hyderabad campus, Rs 15,000 crore AI-datacenter commitment) and activation of Microsoft's fourth India Azure cloud region (Aug 2026) show a strategic, deeply embedded hub.
Timeline
- 1998
Microsoft India Development Center (MSIDC) established in Hyderabad - Microsoft's own site states it was 'set up in Hyderabad in 1998'; now one of Microsoft's largest R&D centers outside Redmond.
- 2021-01/2021-11-20
Microsoft opened a new engineering hub in Noida/NCR (KP Towers/Sovereign), inaugurated January 2021, expanded with ~150,000 sq ft on Nov 20, 2021, housing Cloud & AI, Experiences & Devices, Microsoft Digital and Gaming teams.
- 2025-02-13
Telangana CM inaugurated Microsoft's new 1.1 million sq ft, LEED-certified campus in Gachibowli, Hyderabad, marking 25 years of Microsoft operations in the city; Rs 15,000 crore AI/hyperscale datacenter investment announced, plans to add ~2,500 employees in the new building (4,800 hires overall).
Leadership context
Anish Chandy is Microsoft India's Country Head - AI Business Solutions, elevated into the role around October 2025 after 13+ years at Microsoft, most recently as Industry Solutions (Consulting) Leader for India/South Asia. This is a commercial/go-to-market leadership role, not an engineering leadership post tied to the India Development Center (MSIDC) itself; historically MSIDC engineering was led separately under a 'Managing Director, Microsoft India R&D' (e.g. Rajiv Kumar as of 2021).
Real estate
asset: New Hyderabad campus, Gachibowli; sizeSqFt: 1100000; note: Multiple named-press sources report the new campus as 1.1 million sq ft, not 1.2 million as stated in on-file gccNotes - discrepancy flagged for verification.; certification: LEED-certified; inaugurationDate: 2025-02-13; associatedInvestment: Rs 15,000 crore committed for AI/hyperscale datacenter capacity in Telangana
News and developments
Microsoft inaugurates new Hyderabad campus, plans Rs 15,000 crore investment
New 1.1M sq ft LEED-certified campus in Gachibowli; ~2,500 new employees planned (4,800 hires overall); marks 25 years of Microsoft in Hyderabad.
2025-02-13 The Print ↗
Anish Chandy appointed Country Head - AI Business Solutions, Microsoft India
After 13+ years at Microsoft, elevated to lead the AI Business Solutions unit focused on AI adoption among Indian enterprise customers.
2025-10-08 CIO&Leader ↗
Microsoft's fourth India datacenter region goes live
Azure cloud region activated in Hyderabad with three availability zones - Microsoft's largest hyperscale cloud footprint in India.
2026-08-06 Microsoft News Center (Source Asia) ↗
Sources
Sources and research notes
Source: Indian GCC 2026 Master Compendium, Company Master and research records. Sector, mandate and public leadership are derived fields. Missing values are shown as not disclosed. Revenue and global headcount describe the parent company, not the India centre.