They are a fraction of TCS's 215, 000-strong workforce but represent the bridgehead of its ambitions to go beyond being merely an outsourced back-office and coding shop and take on such consultancy giants as IBM, Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Accenture on their home turf.

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Outside software developers were also promised the coding or API's (application programming interfaces) that Windows developers have for programs like Microsoft Office.

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