The Microsoft Israel R&D center plans to hire 100 new employees for cloud computing projects. Microsoft Israel R&D center president Moshe Lichtman made the announcement at the company's annual press conference today.
The Microsoft Israel R&D center has 600 R&D employees. "Cloud computing is at the center of our vision. About 70% of the center's development activity is focused on cloud computing," Lichtman said. "This year, we will complete development of the first versions of 11 products, which will be launched on the global market."
"Just over a year ago, we launched a free security product. The product has had 100 million downloads in the past year, and it has the second largest share of the global market for free products. This product was developed entirely in Israel, and it will stay free," said Lichtman.
The Microsoft Israel R&D center developed technologies for Microsoft Corporation's (Nasdaq: MSFT) mobile search engine, Bing Mobile. A feature developed in Israel enables check-in via Facebook, Foursquare, and Messenger. It also makes it possible to receive memos when the user is nearing a geographical point, such a particular store.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on January 31, 2011
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