Microsoft plans to outsource more

[Rick Tomaschuk]

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> MICROSOFT PLANS TO STOP SUPPORTING THE AMERICAN ECONOMY
> BY OUTSOURCING MORE THAN 10,000 JOBS OVER 10 YEARS TO CHINA
> 
>
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002468560_msftgoogle03.html
> 
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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.
> 
> COMMENTS AT: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?
> sid=05/09/04/2256208&tid=109&tid=218
> 



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