Secret Microsoft pacts leaked
Spinner
Birmingham, UK
It has been reported that confidential agreements between Microsoft and two software companies in India have been leaked. The Washington Alliance of Technology Workers claims the documents expose Microsoft's intention to hire low-cost foreign vendors to write its software.
Source: SeatleTimes"We're in a cyclical business, so that's part of it," she said. "In the work we do, there are areas of expertise. It makes sense to go to the experts because it's not intellectual property, core technology. We'll continue to do that."
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Microsoft is a GLOBAL operating company now, not just a US company or even a North American company. Thier whole aquisition and R&D strategy is global-perspecive based. Has been for almost a decade, and things are accellerating that way more and more. FOR tHE WHOLE IT arena set.
Definitely not surprising, and known to enterprise channel folks. Not knocking the news poster, but it is interesting how long this has taken to perk to the enthusiast\consumer market level to this degree.
Not only is Microsoft doing this, but city governments are (example, Tempe, Arizona is spending a budgetted $1,500,000 for Tax-collecting software, and supplier is one Indian (Country of India)company), as mentioned in John Dvorak's Inside Track column in PC Magazine for July of 2004, Linux is a global interco-operatively MADE O\S, and to compete with that Microsoft has to become globally sourced also. And is doing so and has been doing so.
Dell support has a support center in India, used for times when US support folks are sleeping or not working and call overload fallthrough goes there also. From callers in US. They are not the only mfr to do this kind of thing. Outsourcing support is also common. Southwestern Bell outsources their broadband first level and second level support, company that has the contract happens to be US based right now.
Our hardware is sourced overseas, most of it, at some level.