San Francisco, June 5 -- India played a "very large, very significant" role in bringing agentic artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to Windows, Microsoft's 40-year-old operating system, underscoring the country's growing importance to the technology giant both as an engineering hub and a future growth market.

One of Microsoft's largest R&D hubs with over 22,000 employees, India contributed to much of the engineering work behind the latest AI features for developers in Windows, according to Pavan Davuluri, executive vice-president and chief of Microsoft Windows and devices.

"It's difficult for me to pinpoint one feature that was built in India, because we're a globally distributed workforce that collaborates across teams on almost ...