Microsoft to open offices in six more cities (Not US Cities)

[OhioChick]

Bangalore, Jan 25: Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd said it will open offices in six more cities as part of efforts to strengthen presence in India.

This would take its presence to 13 cities. The expansion plan will include setting up a direct sales infrastructure, broadening partner eco system and market education initiatives and programmes, a company statement said.

"With an enhanced presence Microsoft will enable the small and mid-market organisations to easily access a comprehensive portfolio of its products and services, faster deployment of customised solutions and increased support from both Microsoft and its partners," it said.

The cities where offices are in the process of being opened are Ahmedabad, Indore, Nagpur, Chandigarh, Kochi and Coimbatore.

http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=349965&ssid=54&sid=BUS

[fasttense]

1. Can you say cheap labor? Microsoft can. n/t

[saltpoint]

2. Funny. I didn't hear Flint, Michigan, or Muncie, Indiana, or

youngstown, Ohio on that list.

[Canuckistanian]

3. They're expecting more complaints about Vista, I guess

Just as long as the customers are not harassing Americans.

[peacetalksforall]

4. I seriously believed the subject line meant U.S. cities. nt

[OhioChick]

5. I added to the headline...

as many may think that they're US cities.

[Theres-a]

6. I saw the first headline and thought...

"Where? India?" Sadly true.Bastards.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

7. There are 1,000,000,000 people there!

that does justify more than token representation,

[MrPrax]

18. Shhh...

You'll rain on their 'issue' ;-)

(What next?...SAG presenters decrying Indians who wanna watch Indians in their movies...what a revolting development!!)

Belated...
Welcome to DU

:hi:

[Nomad559]

8. Microsoft to Build Data Center in Texas

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070118/microsoft_data_center.html?.v=1

Microsoft Corp. announced Thursday that will build a $550 million data center here to house its growing online services.

The 400,000-square-foot facility will be the software giant's first major data center in Texas.

The data center will house tens of thousands of computers to host Internet services like Microsoft's Windows Live offerings, which include everything from instant messaging to e-mail, said Mike Manos, Microsoft senior director of data centers.

To entice Microsoft, which will eventually employ about 75 people at the site, the city approved a tax abatement package that will run over the next 10 years.

Mayor Phil Hardberger said the incentive will help turn vacant land within the city into a revenue-producer, bringing more tax dollars to the city and the schools. The data center will also use electricity from the municipal power company, generating.

[ruiner4u]

9. WOW! 75 people!!!!

Thanks Microsoft!

[Nomad559]

11. Thank's Apple

Almost Everything Apple sells, Is outsourced to China

Foxconn to manufacture Apple's iPhone
http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=2238

Apple approved sweat-shop labour
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32644

Inside Apple's iPod factories
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=14915&Page=1&pagePos=2

:eyes:

[OhioChick]

15. Disgruntled Apple Employee, I Presume?

Apple gets no free pass, either. I don't care if a company is "red" or "blue." The bottom line is they're disposing of talented American workers for cheap-ass foreign workers.

On Edit to Add: Your first link isn't working.

[Nomad559]

16. On Edit to Add: Your first link isn't working

Yes It Is, you must be having a problem with your connection.

:)

[OhioChick]

17. Okay.....

It is now. Thanks. :)

[Megahurtz]

10. Microsoft going On-The-Cheap.

After all Bill Gates can't afford anything else. :sarcasm:

[Earth_First]

12. One thing Bill isn't associated for: philanthropy for the American worker...

It's bottom line, free market capitalism.

Who gives a shit how much the Gates Foundation gave last year! This is what matters most to me!

[OhioChick]

13. ...

"One thing Bill isn't associated for: philanthropy for the American worker..."

That's for damn sure.

[Nomad559]

14. Employees offer mixed reactions

to Apple corporate life
http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=974

And while most employees enjoyed the leisurely dress code and excitement associated with the company, they cited a lack of compensation and difficulties climbing the corporate ladder.

"I never dressed nicer than sweat pants. I often came in whatever I slept in the night before and walked around the office barefoot. Nobody cared." said a customer solutions specialist who works for Apple in Austin, TX. But the opportunities for advancement were not that great, the employee said. "There were a lot of communications problems. Micro management to the extreme. I had six different supervisors that did not communicate together and gave me six different answers."

Another employee remarked on the lack of consumer focus in the workplace.

"There is a definite lack of emphasis on customers," said the employee, who holds a senior management position. The employee wrote that there is "a significant fear factor perpetuated of the CEO" by "empire building dinosaurs who operate in antiquated modes and only promote their favorites." The same employee said it's a company policy "not to take notes in meetings," which can make it "quite daunting" to try to operate under such "impossible circumstances."

Meanwhile, a product manager stationed at Apple's home-base in Cupertino sums up Apple as the average conservative company, which works its employees "to the bone" without enough compensation. "When I started it felt like Apple knew my name and what I did," the employee wrote, "but now am nothing more than employee XXX."

[SahaleArm]

19. Oh the horror...

Microsoft is opening offices in India to handle increased demand in the Indian market; what's the issue? BTW Microsoft employs ~40000 people in Redmond, WA where 95% of the R&D is done.

[w4rma]

20. It's not about the Indian market. It's about the American market and cheap skilled labor. (nt)

[SahaleArm]

21. It's about the Indian market - railing against all things Indian is quite the rage these days *nm*

[w4rma]

22. No. And don't exaggerate. (nt)

[SahaleArm]

24. There's nothing in that text to support your contention *nm*

[Stella_Artois]

23. Possibly not

"The expansion plan will include setting up a direct sales infrastructure, broadening partner eco system and market education initiatives and programmes,"

The partner eco system is MS partners selling MS software and services into Indian accounts. Indians using MS software in Indian companies, in India.
Some of them may be call center type operations, some may well not be.

MS has partners all around the globe selling into local markets, i've work for some of them.