Red-carpet welcome awaits Bill Gates in Hyderabad 

The glitterati of Hyderabad including the IT business gurus and the top

politicians are all set to give a red carpet welcome to Bill Gates, Chief

Software Architect, Microsoft. He is likely to visit Hyderabad on November 14th

or ‘the children’s day’ as we know it.

While Gates' agenda remains a closely guarded secret, unofficial word is that

he is going to take part in a vaccination campaign program funded by the Bill

and Melinda Gates Foundation, through children’s vaccination program. After

that he will move towards the towers of the Hi-Tech city and visit the first

software development center that Microsoft has outside of the US.

Microsoft is also likely to officially announce its intention to to buy more

than 22 acres of land in Manikonda near Hyderabad. Biggies like Infosys and

Wipro already have their sprawling campuses in the same place. Officials at the

Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (APIIC) are making it sure

that the paper work is well and truly complete before the IT icon’s visit.

Microsoft's India Development Center holds special significance at

company’s map as it has already demonstrated its capabilities to develop a

complete software product for the global market with the release of Visual

J#.Net. The 200 member Indian team, based at Hyderabad, had earlier released

Services for Unix (SFU) 3.0.

Zia Askari



Hyderabad