Microsoft Development Center Serbia (MDCS) is Microsoft's first

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in this part of the world, with its headquarters in

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. It was established in 2005. MDCS has been evolving as Microsoft's most innovative

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and is composed of enthusiastic and creative teams and individuals that create Microsoft's pioneering

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services and products. Diversity and inclusion are some of the key values of the

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. Teams are made of people with various vocational backgrounds,

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s, perspectives, and opinions.

Development Center teams

Microsoft Development Center Serbia comprises the following teams: Azure Data team produces data processing

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in Microsoft Cloud. The Azure Data team in Belgrade is proud to own and develop the product called Managed Instance from the beginning to the end. Azure

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is the leading MDCS's modern service for data storage used by everybody, from individual programmers to the world's top companies. The team develops end-to-end management for Service Fabric that is capable of orchestrating millions of containers on thousands of

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s. The office team in

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is focused on reviewing and empowering

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productivity through user experience and services based on artificial intelligence developed within Office M365 ecosystem. The products such as Microsoft Editor, Similarity Checker, and Word Designer have been developed in Serbia. Office Media Group has a simple vision – to empower all Microsoft 365 clients to achieve more with the Office options. OMG team aims to provide all the possibilities for each Microsoft client with

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and experience carefully created to satisfy their needs in the best possible way. Maps team in Belgrade has the most prominent role in Microsoft's intention to bring closer Open maps to the growing community, using artificial intelligence for sorting specific map characteristics from

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footage, such as

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s, and

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s. Math team helps students to develop their mathematical skills using the digital mathematical tool via the Microsoft Education portfolio. This work contributes to the more extensive efforts to build an inclusive digital classroom that satisfies all students' needs and helps them develop basic skills, such as reading, writing, mathematics, and communication. Mixed Reality Serbia is the team looking into the future in which reality has been augmented, so not only physical space is visible, but also digital content/holograms interacting with it. MR aims to enable presence and mutual experience regardless of the physical distance of the people. This future is powered by Microsoft Mesh, and the Belgrade Team contributes to the development of devices, software, and artificial intelligence. Havok team creates software used by top game development studios worldwide and makes the best-selling games every year.

Community initiatives

Microsoft Development Center Serbia organizes projects thus contributing to the Serbian society and the community where it operates, in cooperation with organizations such as "Digital Serbia", "Loop", numerous faculties, simultaneously empowering technological ecosystem in Serbia through competitions such as "Bubble cup" and initiatives such as "Girls in ICT" which has grown into "Women know IT" where

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s and

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are empowered to pursue or continue their careers in IT industry. Those initives were led bu several notable people like Dragan Tomic, Dejan Cvetkovic and Tanja Tatomirovic.

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