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Microsoft to boost hiring and research in China
By Zhu Shenshen |
September 7, 2012, Friday
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MICROSOFT Corp aims to expand its work force by more than 1,000 employees in China by the end of June next year, and boost its investment in research by 15 percent in coming years.
College graduates will make up 50 percent of the new recruits it seeks to hire in the new fiscal year ending on June 30, the world's biggest software maker said yesterday in Beijing. At present, it has 4,500 employees. Other technology giants, including Motorola Mobility and Sony Mobile, are cutting jobs in China.
Microsoft unveiled its plans just a month before it releases the next-generation Windows operating system.
"In this new era, China will become the source of global innovations," Ralph Haupter, Microsoft's vice president and Microsoft China's chairman and chief executive, said in a statement yesterday. "Through comprehensive devices and services combined with cloud computing, Microsoft is entering this new era by leveraging our advantages."
Zhang Yaqing, Microsoft's vice president and chairman of Asia-Pacific research, said the company will invest 15 percent more in its annual research in China in coming years from US$500 million now.
The new employees will help Microsoft develop new operating systems, the Office software package and cloud computing services.
In October, Microsoft, whose Windows accounts for more than 90 percent of the desktop and laptop operating system market globally, will release the new Windows platform.
College graduates will make up 50 percent of the new recruits it seeks to hire in the new fiscal year ending on June 30, the world's biggest software maker said yesterday in Beijing. At present, it has 4,500 employees. Other technology giants, including Motorola Mobility and Sony Mobile, are cutting jobs in China.
Microsoft unveiled its plans just a month before it releases the next-generation Windows operating system.
"In this new era, China will become the source of global innovations," Ralph Haupter, Microsoft's vice president and Microsoft China's chairman and chief executive, said in a statement yesterday. "Through comprehensive devices and services combined with cloud computing, Microsoft is entering this new era by leveraging our advantages."
Zhang Yaqing, Microsoft's vice president and chairman of Asia-Pacific research, said the company will invest 15 percent more in its annual research in China in coming years from US$500 million now.
The new employees will help Microsoft develop new operating systems, the Office software package and cloud computing services.
In October, Microsoft, whose Windows accounts for more than 90 percent of the desktop and laptop operating system market globally, will release the new Windows platform.
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