page_title: HITEC City
section_title: R & D Center
hierarchical_section_title: HITEC City / Key Campuses / R & D Center
caption_attribution_description: English: Microsoft R&amp;D Campus Hyderabad
context_page_description: The Hyderabad Information Technology and Engineering Consultancy City, abbreviated as HITEC City, is an Indian information technology, engineering, health informatics, and bioinformatics, financial business district located in Hyderabad, Telangana state.
  HITEC City was founded by N. Chandrababu Naidu adjoining his brainchild "Cyberabad" to Hyderabad city and was inaugurated by then Prime Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee on 22 November 1998. HITEC City is spread across 81 ha of land under suburbs of Madhapur, Gachibowli, Kondapur, Manikonda and Nanakramguda, all the combined technology townships is also known as Cyberabad with a radius of 56.48 km surrounding approximate area of 6,100 ha. HITEC City is within 2 kilometres of the residential and commercial suburb of Jubilee Hills.
context_section_description: Microsoft India Development Center is one of Microsoft's largest R&D centers outside the Redmond headquarters, Washington state. Set up in Hyderabad in 1998. Then Chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu arranged a meeting with Bill Gates founder of Microsoft  and discussed about the infrastructure provided and human resources availability in the state while managed him to build their sprawling 54 acres Microsoft campus of LEED Gold Certification for one of its buildings in hyderabad. The Microsoft Corporation is the first multinational company to launched the Research and development center in Cyberabad.
caption: Microsoft R&D Hyderabad
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