Microsoft to EXPAND Fargo operations.

[Deja Q]

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595-6185729.html

Excerpt:

"The Microsoft Fargo location has significantly expanded its charter over the past several years, and today the campus is home to teams from across the company," Microsoft Business Division President Jeff Raikes said in a statement. "The expansion we are announcing today is very exciting and will help position us to keep pace with our growth and the changing needs of our business."

In addition to building the new 120,000-square-foot building in Fargo, Microsoft said it will tack on 65,000 square feet to an existing building.

Last month, Microsoft said it was leasing 1.3 million square feet in two office towers under construction in Bellevue, Wash., a Seattle suburb near Microsoft's main campus in Redmond. Microsoft said that space could eventually house 4,000 people.


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[Nomad559]

1. Microsoft will also be following

Apples lead In Outsourcing To China.

Microsoft to build Zune plant In China
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/112865/microsoft-to-build-zune-plant-in-china.html

Microsoft is building its own manufacturing plant in China to assemble a new version of the Zune portable media player.

Among the criticisms aimed at the original Zune released in the US last November was that it was little more than a re-badged and repackaged Toshiba Gigabeat and contained little innovation, save a battery-hungry and DRM-encumbered wireless music sharing feature.