During his visit to India earlier this month, Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft projected his company’s technology and programs as ways to help India modernize both its technical and physical infrastructure, reports Fortune. He restated the Microsoft program launched earlier this year which would provide a boost to the startup ecosystem in India. As part of this program, the company offers $120,000 per year of free Azure Cloud services to each of the qualified startups
A few months ago, Microsoft opened new India data center regions in Pune, Chennai, and Mumbai, bringing its total to 24. Research firm Evans Data Corp. estimates that there are about 2.75 million developers in India today, making it second only to the U.S.
