New Delhi: Stepping up its India focus, Microsoft said it will launch English version of its low-cost operating system 'Starter Edition' in the first quarter of next year and set up an innovation centre in Bangalore.
"The Windows XP Starter Edition has already been launched in Hindi and Tamil and there is a demand for launching it in English. The English version of the operating system will be only for India," Microsoft Corporate Vice President (Worldwide Public Sector) Gerri Elliott said.
The sofware giant will launch Starter Edition in other languages as well. The Starter Edition is available at Rs 1,200.
The innovation centre that the company will set up in Bangalore will support local vendors as part of its global initiative to set 30 more such centres.
"The centre will be part of the Microsoft Technology Centre in Bangalore and will be inaugurated in January next year. The centre will be set up in collaboration with local partners," he added.
The centre is aimed at helping developers, independent software vendors, students, entreprenuers and governments to develop and deploy innovative software solutions.
Microsoft presently has 60 innovation centres around the world in countries like Germany, Malaysia and China and additional 30 innovation centres will open in 2006 with facilitis in South Korea, South Africa and India.
The company, however, did not disclose the investment it plans to make for the innovation centres.
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