Microsoft is part of a wave of companies that are expanding research and development in China to serve its fast-growing market and take advantage of a huge Chinese talent pool of scientists and engineers.
Microsoft says its Beijing center, one of six, already has exceeded expectations, producing 260 innovations that have been added to products sold worldwide. The center is Microsoft's biggest outside the United States, with 350 researchers.
“They are increasingly poised to produce technical breakthroughs that may in fact be the basis of a whole new business for the company,'' said Craig Mundie, the company's chief research officer.
Mundie said the lab is expected to take the lead in developing business-oriented products for developing countries and possibly health care-related software
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