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Microsoft Outsourcing High-Level Work
philistine writes "The Seattle Times reports
A Seattle labor group said it has new evidence that Microsoft is shifting high-level work to foreign contractors, including work on the next version of Windows. The evidence is a cache of Microsoft contracts with Indian technology vendors that were leaked to the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers, an AFL-CIO affiliate that has focused on outsourcing in its effort to organize tech workers."
A Seattle labor group said it has new evidence that Microsoft is shifting high-level work to foreign contractors, including work on the next version of Windows. The evidence is a cache of Microsoft contracts with Indian technology vendors that were leaked to the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers, an AFL-CIO affiliate that has focused on outsourcing in its effort to organize tech workers."
Some quality code into Windows
All those hard working Indians are less apt to have bugs in their software!
What's with all these outsourcing stories lately? No wonder why this site is called "slash-DOT"
Linux will be free off all those foreign contributions.
Are they outsourcing high-level work, or work on Windoze?
-jcr
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Wow, first time I've been GLAD to hear about out-sourcing. Those Indian cats really know how to program! I'm glad to see the next version of Windows will have few bugs, a better UI, and actually be released on time...
I want to outsource my liver functions to India, that way I could drink all day and all night and my own liver would be fine.
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Here's the god awful color again. How tough it this to change? Who decided on this horrible, horrible, horrible color scheme?
Color scheme decisions got outsourced.
Joe Six-pack
What about us Joe 12-packs?
Actually it can be. Here are some of the advantages:
- Lower Cost of Living, I bought a house in Austin for $100k
- More space
- Nobody looks strange at you when you date your sister or cousin
- You can date your farm animals
- With such a low average intelligence, you are much smarter than anyone else.
But there is one disadvantage: You are in Texas.Fight Spammers!
I think you've got John Kerry's next hunting story there. "There's nothing Theresa and I enjoy more than crawling around on our bellies shooting squirrels with a 12-gauge! As you can see, you hillbilly morons and I are a lot alike."
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whew. "highest skilled work . . . such as software development" that's a good one.
-ninjaneer
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happen to a slave-based economy when robots and advanced artificial intelligences replace everybody, i. e., when human labor, knowledge and expertise become worthless? It will be orders of magnitude worse than outsourcing.
Then it will be time for the great robot war!
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"In fact it takes some time and skill to inspect source for vulnerabilities"
from a microsoft victums point of view, more damning words were never spoken.