Satya Nadella, the Chief Executive Officer of IT software giant Microsoft is arriving here on Monday on his first visit to his home city after he took the reign of the behemoth in February last.
There was an air of excitement and anticipation both at the India Development Center of Microsoft in Hyderabad and in the official circles of both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
While Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu was keen to woo Nadella to set up another development centre or campus of Microsoft in Visakhapatanam or Vijayawada, Telangana Government was keen to impress him by offering more sops to expand the present facilities in Hyderabad.
Nadella, born in Anantapur and educated in Hyderabad Public School and Manipal Institute of Technology in Karnataka, was expected to meet both Chandrababu Naidu and K Chandrasekhar Rao.
Hyderabad is the only place outside the United States to host a development center of Microsoft.On Monday he was scheduled to visit New Delhi and take part in two programs organised by NASSCOM, the body representing the software industry in India.