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Microsoft to Invest $1.7 billion in India

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the currying-favor dept.

piyushranjan writes "Bill Gates has announced that Microsoft will invest $1.7 billion in India over the next four years to expand its operations. The fund would also be spent in making India a major hub of Microsoft's research, product and application development, services and technical support for both global and domestic companies. Microsoft plans to create 3000 more jobs at India, taking it's headcount at India to 7000."

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  1. Re:Heck... by pubjames · · Score: 5, Informative

    I know you're only joking, but the annual GDP of India (according to the CIA world factbook) is $ 3,319,000,000,000, so it's worth considerably more than Microsoft...

  2. Re:Are you sure that the GDP by pubjames · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well, the CIA says so:

    http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ranko rder/2001rank.html

    It doesn't surprise me, but I think that table may shock the many Americans who have a very distorted view of the world!