Microsoft to set up Lab in IIT chennai

Microsoft India has said that it will set up technology lab the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. The company is investing Rs 90 lakhs initially in the IITM Microsoft Windows Technologies Lab that will harness innovation through research and provide a platform for faculty and students to use it for different kinds of research and training programmes. This lab will offer best to date MS technology for the staff and students to work with and can also from helping students with their B Tech and M Tech projects and also the MS and PhD students in their research programmes. The initial focus in the lab will be on Windows Terminal services, device drivers, networking protocols, windows mobile and multi-modal localisation. Six companies have already spoken to IIT for using the lab and TCS was one of them.