Posted on 09/05/2005 2:34:54 AM PDT by HAL9000
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Microsoft is on track to outsource more than 1,000 jobs a year to China, according to blistering evidence released yesterday in Microsoft's increasingly nasty spat with Google over an employee who jumped ship in July.In a revelation that highlights the complexity of China President Hu Jintao's visit to Seattle and Microsoft on Monday, legal filings detailed claims of how Microsoft had offended the Chinese government by not outsourcing as many jobs as promised to Chinese technology vendors.
Chief Executive Steve Ballmer visited China in 2003 and promised to step up the pace, from $33 million worth of work a year to $55 million a year, according to a statement by Kai-Fu Lee, a former vice president who left to work for Google in July. Lee was charged with smoothing over relations with China and finding jobs that could be shifted to Chinese contract workers.
"At the time of my departure, MS was on track to outsource over 1,000 jobs a year to China," he said in a court declaration. A Microsoft spokeswoman said the company has transferred some projects to China "in order to free up teams here for other work."
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This helps to explain Bill Gates' fulsome praise of China's Communist Leaders.
All we need is to have the Chinese inserting secret backdoors into the most prevelent operating system. The government should forbid this outright.
When is the boat leaving so we can get our jobs back over there.
I challenge ANYONE to relate one positive experience with an Indian (or otherwise) outsource help desk computer person.</p>
WTF are these coporate people thinking?
Oh come on, man. This is Free Trade! We're only outsourcing jobs Americans don't want to do anyway, and it's not like they are high-tech jobs. What, are you still building buggy whips? Are you suggesting that we need protection against China? Don't you know how Free Trade works?
No, I'm watching the movie "Ned Devine" and laughing my ass off as that skinny little guy is riding a motorcyle nekid.
I have to remember to play the lottery today.
I had one. I was reinstalling Xp after a major hardware upgrade. It would not install due to there being too many hardware changes. An India help desk operator was able to get me a new install code and I was back in business.
Hmm...I've not seen that movie...
I'm still laughing at the movie though. So glad I've got the Irish in me.
CQ? CQ?
:-)
Nicely said, but only partly true. There is no douby Microsoft will turn enormous profits, and that one of the reasons is the inexpensive overseas labor. So in that regard the blue chip will remain blue.
The bigger issue, of course, is whether there is - or should be - any connection between foreign policy and trade policy. When - if ever - do we trade with our enemies, and does the US government have the right - in a capitalist economy - to impose such limitations and tariffs?
If only that was true. First we exported our manufacturing industry now our service industry.
Even if we cut taxes to the bone could we compete with the expanding Chinese and Indian labour market.
I work as a Java developer, I have seen many software jobs go to India.
I know all about how a free market operates but it is hard to have a so what attitude when you have a family to support and never sure whether you will still be employment tomorrow or next month.
Tony
There will be NO secrets from the Chinese government. They are our system administrators now.
It's a quaint, odd movie (1998).
It's about an old guy called Ned Devine that wins the lottery and passes away in his chair when he sees his number come up on the toob.
The whole town conspires to substitute a winner and divide the winnings.
Full of great Irish characters, scenery, and music. Like a trip back to the old sod.
Trust me, I don't go for nekid guys riding motorbikes, but it is a funny scene.
This poor Irish guy is so emaciated, passing himself off as the real Ned Devine, and looks so diriculous, you can't help but belly laugh. Without the Irish humor in me, I'd have been dead decades ago.
There's actually a bar up here in Boston that has the same name. I'm not sure if it's a chain or just a solo operation.
A free market - where all the patricipants adhere to the principles of capitalism and the governments are not participants but observers - will promote free trade because it has capitalism at its core.
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