Microsoft moves Windows to a different continent to further mute all details about the platform.

Asphyxiated under Sinofsky’s Windows Omerta, the Redmond company is not breathing a single word about the future of Windows XP and Windows Vista, and the whole of the Windows platform for that matter. But Redmond is no longer the sole epicenter of the Windows operating system. Apparently, Microsoft has exported its Windows projects to India.

According to Jon DeVaan senior Vice President, Windows Core Operating System Division, cited by The Hindu Business Line the Indian division of Microsoft will play a key role in the development of both Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Seven, the successor of Windows Vista.

DeVaan revealed that the Microsoft Research and Development center in India will be at the heart of the company’s efforts to build both Windows XP SP3 and Windows Seven. Microsoft decided such a scenario following a Windows Seven group meeting at the Redmond campus. From the company’s headquarters it was decided that the XP SP3 and Windows Seven development efforts to be off shored all the way to India. A melange of Windows and Windows Live development teams, working under the lead of Sunil Bansali will contribute to building the next Windows operating system and the third service pack for Windows XP.

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