Microsoft CEO SatyaNadella will be making his first visit to India later this month. The visit, coincidentally, will happen on the day when Microsoft will launch a technical preview of Windows 9.
And it comes within two weeks of that of Sundar Pichai, Google’s head of Android, Chrome and apps. Nadella and Pichai are today the two biggest Indian American names in US techdom. Nadella will be part of two events organized in Delhi by Nasscom on September 30, including one focused on startups and another focused on digital. On the same day, he will also participate in a Microsoft event that will discuss how to ensure more participation of women in technology.
The visit comes at the same time that PM Narendra Modi is in the US. Sources said Nadella will make a visit to his home town Hyderabad.
Microsoft declined to comment on the visit.
