Chidanand Rajghatta of the ToI is writing breathless, inaccurate articles in bad English (this guy’s a foreign editor? He could use some editing himself) about how Indians are God’s gift to software development, and how MS is determined to keep the Indian development community in their bag, and how much keeping the brains of India firmly wedded to Windows matters to MS.

But its not so much the revenue bucks from India that matter to Gates as the brains. From all accounts, he is now convinced that India has it to be the next software hub. So the new Microsoft strategy is not only to aim for the market, but just about every level of the playing field, from the central, state to the local governments, to schools, colleges and universities. Earlier this year, the company chose senior faculty members from the best tech institutes in the country, including IITs and RECs, for what was dubbed a Microsoft Research faculty summit in the US.

So why aren’t the shared source programs for Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows .NET Server 2003 available in India?