Microsoft to double India staff

[Sub Atomic]

Microsoft to double India staff

HYDERABAD, India--Microsoft plans to double its staff strength at its Indian centers in Hyderabad and Bangalore by March 2006, a company executive said late on Saturday.

"We aim to ramp up the strength at the India Development Center (in Hyderabad) by another 1,000 professionals," Tess Field, Microsoft's head of human resources in India, told reporters on the sidelines of a management convention.

The Hyderabad campus in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh is the software maker's largest campus outside the United States. It provides product development and support services.

The 28-acre campus, which opened last November, also houses a global delivery center and is part of a three-year, $400 million investment plan for India announced in 2002.

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[DemsUnited]

1. The exporting of America continues.

Don't agree with Lou Dobbs on much, but agree with him that this trend is disastrous to America.

[barb162]

15. He's absolutely right on that point. He is about the only person on

MSM saying it and saying it all the time. This country is going down if this crap isn't stopped. Most people aren't paying that much attention to this enormous problem.

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. More crappy software from India, just what the world needs.

[RethugAssKicker]

3. while they wipe out our jobs!.... BASTARDS!

[hughee99]

5. Did micosoft announce domestic layoffs?

I didn't see anything about microsoft jobs recently leaving the US when I googled it.

[Mr_Spock]

6. They move the jobs there, then slowly push people out.

It's been happening for a while now.

[hughee99]

7. I knew they were starting new jobs over there,

I just hadn't seen anything about people losing their jobs over here.

[Mr_Spock]

9. It's called - ERGO as in therefore it will happen.

It's not done on the same day - that would be a bit too obvious. We are being forced out of our jobs here as our company opens facilities in China employing hundreds of people. We've been on a hiring freeze for over 5 years now. Attrition will eventually take us all as nobody is replaced when the leave.

[hughee99]

12. I am aware that it does happen at other companies

I was actually wondering specifically about Microsoft. A friend of mine in Seattle suggested I come out there to work, though I currently have a job I enjoy on the east coast. He said they were hiring out there, and apparently they're hiring internationally as well. What I was wondering is whether Microsoft was expanding or simply shifting jobs.

[barb162]

14. and he was talking BS how there aren't enough qualified

people here. They're here and unemployed because he's firing them. He is such a pug

[superconnected]

16. Over half of Microsoft are contractors

Contractors get 1 year contracts then have to take a 100 day mandatory break from working there.

They have to find another job when they come back from the 100 day break because most of the time their position was filled during their break. See contracts for microsoft go in 3month to 1 year increments only.

I know, I've been a contractor for Microsoft 3 times now.

[tanyev]

4. That will help the economy. India's economy.

[lcordero2]

8. I wonder if chessbase products run in WINE...

[lakeguy]

10. that's it, i've been researching converting my laptop to linux....

but now I am going to do it. so damn tired of this crap. when will the lives of americans over rule the profits of american companies?

[aquart]

11. Mr.Gates is insufficiently taxed.

[Auntie Bush]

13. So this is what Bill Gates had in mind when he donated a Billion

dollars to all those third world countries? I thought he was giving aid to the people and here he was financing there businesses so they could take away American jobs...and he got a huge tax break for his donations.

I think we should make a law that anyone who gives aid money to another country that enables them to take American jobs...shouldn't receive a tax break. Is that being selfish? Can other countries get tax breaks when they help Americans take their jobs?

[Tyler Durden]

17. Gate's spew on "This I believe"

Piss drinking son of a circus whore.

"Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it "tap-dancing to work."

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No offense to the Indians in Hyderabad, but it's about time we kicked some ASS on people who make their billions here and then piss in our morning coffee.

[Voltaire99]

18. I'm Microsoft-free!

You, too, can live without Big Software. If its crappy overpriced products aren't reason enough to make you switch, its outsourcing policies should be.

On my Mac: the brilliant OS X word processor Mellel ($39, www.redlers.com) and the superb web browser Opera (free, www.opera.com).

On my Windows PC: the very good Open Office suite (free, www.openoffice.org).

Stop supporting corporate bastards!