Microsoft plans to add R&D staff in Asia-Pacific

[OhioChick]

2011-07-28 08:01

HANGHAI - Microsoft Corp plans to add 750 employees to its research operations in the Asia-Pacific region during the second half of this year, a move to boost research and development (R&D) outside the US.

The new employees will be mainly responsible for research into cloud computing, searching and digital entertainment, said Zhang Yaqin, corporate vice-president of Microsoft and chairman of the Microsoft Asia-Pacific Research and Development Group.

He said Chinese staff have been responsible for much R&D work on Microsoft products, such as Kinect, its hit motion-sensing gaming device.

"We will add more features to the Kinect device, for example, combining searching and social features," he said.

More: http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/us/2011-07/28/content_13001186.htm

[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. Why is this allowed to happen? Why are products sold here not tariffed highly when they do this?

I don't get it. This country is a fucking disaster run by corporations and the rich, to destroy the rest of us.

[RKP5637]

3. Yep, only the bottom line counts, F the people, F the country. It's

the free wheeling capitalistic way. I've always contended capitalism rewards sociopathic behavior and the rest get crumbs if lucky. It's a system that sometimes rewards some of the worst behavior in humans

[Sarah Ibarruri]

4. Capitalism is shit. Pure shit. It's a scam, through and through. nt

[RKP5637]

7. Yep, by default some will win, many will lose, and greed/cheating are keys to

the rewards. And never cooperation, always competition. That's what Obama gets when he asks for compromise in a capitalistic system.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

8. I remember in college signing up for 'economics' and being shocked...

From the beginning of the course, to the end of the course, the only economics style macro and micro focused on, was CAPITALISM. I don't know why the hell they call the courses economics. They should just call it macro CAPITALISM and micro CAPITALISM. It was all bullshit. The magic hand of Adam Smith was actually the hands of the rich and corporations redistributing the wealth of our country away from the middle class and working poor, and towards the top.

Of course, many in the country were willing to vote for the more subservient lackeys of the corporations and the rich, because a large number of Americans are keen on propaganda, bullshit, and lies.

:(

[RKP5637]

9. Yep, similar here. I actually used to believe and like the BS, but over the

years I've learned far better, that capitalism is a usury system. It's a system of exploration and opportunists. And in the end it can destroy a society, much as we see going on now. As I moved up in management, I realized what a shit system it really was when one looks at the whole picture and not their paycheck. There were so many snakes and evilness in management it was perverse.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

12. That would make a great name for capitalism, and more on point: OPPORTUNISM.

Opportunism: A system in which the most exploitative animals survive.

It would reflect capitalism much more accurately.

[RKP5637]

13. Many in America don't have the education to really understand how exploitive

capitalism is, so they fall for propaganda, bullshit, and lies, because that's what they've filled with for education as little sheep.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

14. Why are people in the U.S. so uneducated? What's your view of this? I have my own opinion nt

[RKP5637]

16. We had it too good after WWII, have never had for want, basically many are

spoiled, and authoritative governments do not want a smart educated population that might challenge them.

Governments always want to suppress intellectuals who might not fall in line and eat up the government propaganda.

Also, today, you're a nerd if educated, and cool if a jock. It's vogue to be ignorant today because IMO education takes work and is unattainable for many, so they slander and bully those striving for an education.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

17. Wow. Thanks.

"authoritative governments do not want a smart educated population that might challenge them."

The Third Reich was the height of authoritarian and they DEFINITELY did not want an educated population. It would've destroyed their use of propaganda.

[roxiejules]

10. Sen. Schumer is pushing for more 'highly skilled' immigrants

claiming we don't have enough skilled workers in the US.

Read the comments under the article at the link from people who have been laid off by Microsoft - is very telling.

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/236592/senators_push_for_highskill_immigration_reform.html

[RKP5637]

15. That's the same bullshit line Greenspan used to use as I and several friends sat

around with multiple university degrees, unemployed, saying WTF is this guy talking about. Most of them are clueless in addressing the problems.

[roxiejules]

18. Are they clueless or bought off? n/t

[RKP5637]

19. Probably some combination, but mostly bought off IMO. n/t

[roxiejules]

20. +1

n/t

[RKP5637]

2. Yep, as R&D moves out of the country. I remember stuff like this well

when I was in R&D (different corp.)

[madrchsod]

5. GE is doing the same thing...wait a minute-

was`t the guy that runs GE the head of obama`s jobs panel?

http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/27/ge-moving-x-ray-business-to-china-what-message-is-sent-to-u-s/

[OhioChick]

6. Yeah.....job creation in other countries! n/t

[roxiejules]

11. 'Our goal is clearly not to find a qualified and interested U.S. worker'

Why are law firms, like the notorious Cohen & Grigsby, holding seminars on how to legally avoid hiring qualified Americans? Lawrence Lebowitz’s famous quote explaining of the PERM application process to employers"

"Our goal is clearly NOT to find a qualified and interested U.S. worker, and that, in a sense, sounds funny, but it's what we are trying to do here."


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