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."
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...
WTF? That makes no sense.
I'd say it's someone who has some personal issues with admitting he/she is wrong.
As for making things up and then refusing to respond when called on it ... I'd call them the NYTimes, Boston Globe, CNN, MSNBC, Newsweek, Time, LATimes, Detroit Free Press, etc.
Thats what he said... because he wants so badly for Linux to be evil and MS to be good..
Welcome to HAL9000's Believe It Or Not.
MS is better than Linux, IMO, but Linux is VERY good and, unlike MS, is improving every year. The future of Linux is unlimited. I dunno, I never considered an OS to be "evil". Is there an exorcism available for it?
Hahaha ... is there a wax museum in Niagra Falls to go along with it?
You guys crack me up!!!
Wow a geocities page with an opinion as biased and distorted as yours... well the internet is a big place.. You lef out one Microsoft, whos founder Bill Gates praised the chineese leadership who ran over democracy protesters in 1989 as now beink AOK..
You've never proven anything, other than you're an IBM stooge who's emotionally unstable. I've created whole new threads lamblasting Gates and don't agree with any collusion with China, but the facts are that IBM leads the pack.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1300424/posts
http://www.truthinmedia.org/truthinmedia/Bulletins/tim98-1-5.html
http://partners.nytimes.com/library/world/110197us-china.2.jpg.html
BTW what do you think about communism.org using asp pages?
LOL, accusing the richest man in the world of being a communist, while trying to run cover for the GNU operation which is based on it.
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html
Wonder if n3wbie is a "useful idiot", or "proletarian"? Marx would know for sure.
One more time, GE.
POST THE QUOTES.
LOL, accusing the richest man in the world of being a communist, while trying to run cover for the GNU operation which is based on it.
Scream all you want: even if he hears you, he won't listen. :-)
The users of Microsoft's new China-based internet portal were recently blocked from using the words ‘democracy’, ‘freedom’ and ‘human rights’ in a move by the software giant to please Beijing.Other words that are not permitted on Microsoft China's free online blog service, MSN Spaces, include: ‘Taiwan independence’ and ‘demonstration’.
If a user attempts to post one of these words in his blog, he would recieve the following message: "this item should not contain forbidden speech such as profanity. Please enter a different word for this item".
Microsoft has already been critisized for working with the Chinese government in an attempt to censor the internet.
Microsoft has already been critisized for working with the Chinese government in an attempt to censor the internet.
http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?id=28937&category=main
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