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A Chennai Native heads MS Research India

Today Microsoft announced grand plans of digitizing India’s vast geographical maps and survey information. For this it has signed an MOU with Government of India. This is good news, not because MS is involved :-) , but because this might finally evolve into a website that will allow me to search and access quality maps for India. Everytime I see Mapquest or MapPoint or hundreds of other maps website for USA, I envy the US for having excellent maps including driving instructions readily available. In contrast, in India we don’t even have one single website providing comparable service.


The other news here that makes me feel happy is that, Microsoft Research Lab in India which will work on this, is headed by Microsoft’s P. Anandan, who is a native of Chennai (My Home Town) !


 

January 12th, 2005 | Category: Miscellanous | Leave a comment

Windows Server team cares about you

Microsoft has a dedicated website “Windows Server Feedback” for people to post their feedback about Windows 2000/2003 Servers and suggestions for upcoming releases.


Couple of months back I posted a suggestion for a feature in Windows Servers that will enable easy replication across Web servers – both web content and IIS/ASP.NET settings. Honestly I didn’t expect much and the feedback to be lying in some Microsoft Mailbox/Database Server dormant; it is going to be one among thousands of feedbacks. Yesterday I was surprised to receive an email from Windows Server Feedback Response Team acknowledging that the feedback was “interesting” and it is being sent to the Product Team. WOW!, I just hope the feedback will make it in the next release(s).


Open Source proponents, may say the above surprise is unnecessary if I am using an “Open Source” OS like Linux, where I can develop this feature myself and need not wait till the software giant does it. But my whole point is, I don’t want to re-invent the wheel, waste my time/resources in developing this feature. I want to simply buy it off-the-shelf; and focus on my core-business.

January 12th, 2005 | Category: Technology | Leave a comment