Microsoft Asia-Pacific Research and Development Group year: funding from less than 5 million dollars to 700 million

Microsoft Asia-Pacific Research and Development Group 8 years: Research and development funds from less than 5 million U.S. dollars to more than 700,000,001 months 20th news, Microsoft Asia-Pacific Research and Development Group welcomed the establishment of the 8 anniversary, Microsoft Global Senior vice president, Asia-Pacific Research and Development Group Chairman Zhang today disclosed Microsoft Asia-Pacific Research and Development Group The service mode transformation, accelerates the technological innovation, constructs the venture investment, the opening and so on ecosystem system. Zhang recalls that 8 years ago (2006), he conceived the architecture of the Asia-Pacific Research and Development Group in his home in Seattle, in Monday, he was approved by CEO Steve Ballmer, Wednesday Zhang to return, Friday, the Asia-Pacific Research and Development Group was formally established. At present, the Asia-Pacific Research and Development Group has become Microsoft outside the United States, the largest research and development base, with more than 3,000 people, covering Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Suzhou four cities. Microsoft Asia Pacific Research and Development group based on large-scale technology research, product incubation and business cooperation, Zhang said, the original dream and dreams have been achieved, the middle of many challenges. According to the introduction, Microsoft's development technology base in China is divided into three nodes: at the end of 1998, the establishment of the Microsoft China Research Institute, the founder of Bill Gates Support, the establishment of the Asian Engineering Institute in early 1999, the Institute of Research into products, training products talent; integration of product research in 2006, To form a system of large-scale strategy. "Over the past 8 years, Microsoft's Asia-Pacific Research and Development Group of research and development funds to increase significantly, initially not even 5 million dollars used, last year's funding has more than 700 million U.S. dollars, not enough." Zhang describes the development of Microsoft's Asia-Pacific research group from the capital dimension. At the product level, Microsoft's Asia-Pacific Research and Development Group's projects and products are 80% global. Last year, Microsoft made a landmark development in China-cloud computing public cloud landed six months to open tens of thousands of accounts, and the company set up a joint venture in Shanghai FTA, responsible for the production of Xbox equipment, the establishment of Microsoft VC Accelerator, with the start-up company, has now completed three of products and team hatching. Zhang revealed that Microsoft Asia-Pacific Research and Development Group will implement the three major strategies in the future, include: Speed up the Microsoft Cloud and mobile transformation, implement equipment + service strategy, the software will be realized through equipment and service, accelerate the natural surface, large data, machine learning, intelligent things networking and other fields of technological innovation; Build Microsoft VC Accelerator, Microsoft Open technology companies, software outsourcing, industrial alliances and other ecosystems. (Chuck)