Microsoft is keen on doing pure research in India that would show how "computing could impact rural areas and benefit emerging markets", says a senior scientist-businessman who heads the company's main research centre in the United States.
In the bargain, more of its products could also get established in the country he says.
Microsoft Research's Bangalore centre is the third overseas research facility after one in Cambridge, started 1996, and another in Beijing started the next year. Half the 700 people at Microsoft Research work overseas, including now, those in Bangalore.
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