Microsoft's Gates woos Indian engineers
Reuters | at | by Mike
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates coaxed Indian engineers on Wednesday to use his firm's proprietary software, dismissing threats to his Windows system from rival Linux in the battle over network computing. The world's richest man, on the third day of a trip to India, delivered a sales pitch in the nation's technology capital Bangalore, home to more than 1,000 software companies. Gates, who said on Tuesday that his firm would invest $400 million in India over three years on education, partnerships and boosting its own software center, used his Bangalore visit to promote Microsoft's .NET (dot-net) network platforms and tools.