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InfoWorld carried a story earlier this week about the interoperability lab that we have established in India, this adds to the labs that we now have in several countries across the region.

The Lab will be focused on both testing interoperability between products from different vendors, and also looking at issues of interoperability between different versions of products from the same vendor.

You can read the article here;

Microsoft has set up a lab in Bangalore where industry, government, and educational institutions can build [and] test applications for their interoperability with open-source and other technologies.

The company also announced Thursday an Open Source Technology Program with four Indian academic institutions. The program will encourage student projects across diverse areas including interoperability between Windows and Linux platforms, said Ravi Venkatesan, chairman of Microsoft India. Venkatesan spoke at an Interoperability Enclave in Bangalore, which representatives of government, academia, and industry attended.

The article is worth a quick read, it also talks briefly about a program that the subsidiary in India have established to support new Independent Software Vendors, and an Innovation Center that has been opened in Pune. (Western India)