Microsoft’s research lab in India has teamed up with Indian outsourcer Infosys Technologies to research issues in software engineering.

The focus of the new collaboration is not on generating intellectual property but on solving problems in the area of software engineering, Rick Rashid, senior vice president of Microsoft Research, said Tuesday. Most of the joint research will be published and put in the public domain to benefit the software development community, said Rashid, who did not rule out that certain intellectual property would be created and shared by the two companies.

Doing research with Infosys on software engineering is interesting for Microsoft Research because of Infosys’ experience with large and complex projects, said Padmanabhan Anandan, managing director of Microsoft Research Lab India in Bangalore.

“Infosys works on a large number of large enterprise software projects for a variety of clients, and that experience is useful when we do research in software engineering,” he added.

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