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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."

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  1. Thank goodness RedHat is coded in America by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Linux will be free off all those foreign contributions.

  2. Help me out here.. by jcr · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are they outsourcing high-level work, or work on Windoze?

    -jcr

    --
    The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
  3. Outsource My Liver by webword · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  4. Re:Come on! by mattjb0010 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  5. Advantages to moving to Texas by www.sorehands.com · · Score: 5, Funny

    As for Texas, I can't imagine anyone voluntarily moving to Texas being labelled as "smart." :-)

    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.