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Harsh US immigration rules force Microsoft to open shop in Canada
Breitbart.com ^ | July 5, 2007

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; globalism; immigrantlist; microsoft; trade
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To: stephenjohnbanker
You are welcome. I also apologize for my earlier comment. I am acutely aware of this issue. The same is true for every major American university in the top academic programs. American students are a distinct minority in most engineering/CS departments. These spots are filled with scores from competitive exams like GRE and Adv. GRE. With public schools lowering the standards of education, American born and educated students find it increasingly harder to compete against foreigners.

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.

61 posted on 07/05/2007 8:51:56 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: webstersII
Yes, there is a shortage of hi-tech workers that will work for LOW wages like they want, but that’s a different issue.

Bears repeating!!!

62 posted on 07/05/2007 8:56:10 PM PDT by packrat35 (Bush whither be thy brain)
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To: kinoxi
Go with a Linux.

When my system goes south, and it will, you can bet I'll be looking at that.

63 posted on 07/05/2007 8:58:05 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: nwrep

“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 : )


64 posted on 07/05/2007 9:01:02 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker ( Hunter/Thompson/Thompson/Hunter in 08! "Read my lips....No new RINO's" !!)
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To: dragnet2
I’m going to be looking into it shortly myself. I bought ‘a round toit’ the other day and I think I’m going to cash this one in.
65 posted on 07/05/2007 9:03:29 PM PDT by kinoxi
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To: TheLion
The congress critters want only people who will be dependent on government. I can’t believe Bush bought into this. The way we are going, even the liberals are going to figure out what a hellhole we are creating.

Imagine a coast-to-coast version of New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward. Amazingly, that's paradise on earth to a Democrat or a RINO.

66 posted on 07/05/2007 9:04:23 PM PDT by Charles Martel (The Tree of Liberty thirsts.)
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To: SteveMcKing
Not as much a political stunt as you would think.  It's not just the Feds that's the problem.......it's the State of Washington too.  

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.

67 posted on 07/05/2007 9:05:15 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny
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To: kinoxi

I have gazion megabytes of data, can all this crap be converted to Unix, Linux?


68 posted on 07/05/2007 9:11:05 PM PDT by doc1019 (Fred Thompson '08)
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To: SteveMcKing
They didn’t get their cheap labor,

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).


69 posted on 07/05/2007 9:16:35 PM PDT by TopQuark
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To: PugetSoundSoldier

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.


70 posted on 07/05/2007 9:17:09 PM PDT by SteveMcKing
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To: doc1019

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.


71 posted on 07/05/2007 9:18:38 PM PDT by kinoxi
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To: berstbubble
"We should start a boycott of Microsoft and bring that Bill Gates fella to his knees."

Ya, good luck with that one.
72 posted on 07/05/2007 9:18:51 PM PDT by ndt
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To: stephenjohnbanker
You’d be surprised, but these fine schoold do not provide enough. A Stanford graduate who know what Brownian motion is can earn twice more on Wall street. Also, see how many of the graduates are foreign nationals.
73 posted on 07/05/2007 9:19:39 PM PDT by TopQuark
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To: unfortunately a bluestater

Thank you for bringing sanity to this thread.


74 posted on 07/05/2007 9:20:30 PM PDT by TopQuark
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To: TopQuark

Later in the thread, I noticed : )


75 posted on 07/05/2007 9:20:43 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker ( Hunter/Thompson/Thompson/Hunter in 08! "Read my lips....No new RINO's" !!)
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To: stephenjohnbanker
I believe the problem goes beyond US education. As we have seen on that UTUBE video, some companies go out of their way to not hire US workers. Especially older US workers.
76 posted on 07/05/2007 9:21:44 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Illegals: representation without taxation--Citizens: taxation without representation)
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To: TopQuark
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).
 

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.

77 posted on 07/05/2007 9:23:29 PM PDT by SteveMcKing
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To: Babu
More likely, it is Microsoft's unwillingness to pay a fair wage for AMERICAN workers that are MCSE/etc. certified that has "forced" them to open up shop in Canada.

That, and the average American worker is likely a moron who thinks they are the lead character in the movie Office Space.

78 posted on 07/05/2007 9:26:31 PM PDT by Captainpaintball
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To: kinoxi

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.


79 posted on 07/05/2007 9:26:58 PM PDT by doc1019 (Fred Thompson '08)
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To: doc1019
That’s a complicated question. I think as long as you don’t have anything exotic most popular Linux variants should have software to accommodate your needs. As far as Macs go good luck. They can’t even play most decent games...
80 posted on 07/05/2007 9:37:04 PM PDT by kinoxi
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