To stay in business they built a soy processing plant in Walworth, Wisconsin.
Then they exported American soy sauce to Japan.
Microsoft wants to hire the people it wants to hire and employ them where they can "more directly" supervise them.
This frequently involves the use of marriage brokers because MS appears to be breeding its own next generation of advanced software engineers.
You can't do that if your "foreign" offices are all over the globe. Inasmuch as Canada's immigration laws are much more liberal than our own, MS has to settle for BC.
Won't be long, though, and the new hires will discover that Seattle is like the Sunny South compared to BC.
Bwahahahahahahaha!!!
MS is doing what it has to do. The entire workforce of this offshoot amounts to a few hundred people.