Posted on 07/05/2007 7:33:02 PM PDT by Babu
US software behemoth Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it would soon open an office in Canada, lamenting tough immigration rules in the United States that make it difficult to hire foreign staff.
"It is about recruiting the best and brightest, and right now, the majority are coming from overseas," Marc Seaman, a spokesman for the world's biggest software company, told The Globe and Mail newspaper.
"The United States has immigration quotas and some limitations for bringing in people from outside the country," he said. "That challenge is an opportunity for Canada, in the sense that this will bring the top software developers to Canada."
The development office, to be opened in Vancouver, a three-hour drive north from Microsoft's Redmond, Washington headquarters, will initially be staffed by some 300 recruits from around the world, the company said.
Eventually, it could grow to house as many as 1,000 employees.
Canada is currently the third-largest source of recruits for Microsoft outside the United States, after India and Japan.
Most of the US born students go to programs like Law and Medicine. By the way, the situtation is bad enough (as you saw above) for white males. It is even more pathetic for white females. They just DO NOT exist in most top programs in Engineering/CS.
Bears repeating!!!
When my system goes south, and it will, you can bet I'll be looking at that.
“With public schools lowering the standards of education, American born and educated students find it increasingly harder to compete against foreigners. “
Public schools have degenerated into diploma factories.
We must fix our schools, or offer vouchers for students to
pursue academic excellence. My high school was ranked #4 in
the country in 1972. It is now in the 350 range. I was
in advanced placement tracking, and almost all the SAT
scores were in the low to high 700’s. No more, methinks : )
Imagine a coast-to-coast version of New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward. Amazingly, that's paradise on earth to a Democrat or a RINO.
MS has long owned property just over the border for specifically the reason stated in the article.....they've been waiting to use it until it was cost effective to put developers there.
The twit politicians running Washington and Seattle/King County thought Boeing's threat to move out of Washington was a "political stunt" right up to the time Boeing headed off to Chicago.
Even after a few years of reading newspaper articles starting "Chicago based Boeing announced today...." the pols here haven't changed the way they hammer on big business. Mark my words, a few more years of hammering on MS and MS will start moving people out.
I have gazion megabytes of data, can all this crap be converted to Unix, Linux?
more anti-corporate rant... When are you going to accept it that is it not low wages that companies want but the wages that are justified by productivity. In the case of MS, it is even more so: they want talent with rigorous education. Americans enroll into computer science in much smaller numbers now, and general education is pretty bad (trips to the mall are more important than homework for the parents).
Maybe their capital investment will pay off, maybe it won’t. Either way- they deserve no special accommodations, which seems to be what they’re crying for.
I’m not a tech guy, I just know a few things(/s). Your best bet is always going to be Linux for storage and retrieval. If you just want to transfer it to a different medium them you wont need either for the time being. Hard drives are cheap and Windows is about as straightforward as you can get as far as copying your data goes.
Thank you for bringing sanity to this thread.
Later in the thread, I noticed : )
They are not entitled to any of that. If they find it, great, but not by breaking laws or any act of government.
The only thing they are entitled to do is go out of business and seek other employment, like every other person and company has to do.
That, and the average American worker is likely a moron who thinks they are the lead character in the movie Office Space.
Just a simple question. And I understand that you may not be a computer guru. But, can I save all my “stuff” on a CD and then expect my new Unix, Linux, Mac software to recognize it? Otherwise, why would I transfer platforms?
Sota’ an open question for those reading this thread.
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