Microsoft to expand research center in Norway
PC World | at | by Mike
Microsoft plans to expand its Norwegian research facility, making it the biggest enterprise-search research center for the company. The software giant expects to hire another 50 engineers, adding to the 300 researchers it acquired earlier this year along with Norwegian company Fast Search & Transfer. The workers will be spread across three offices in Oslo, Trondheim and Tromsoe.
Microsoft's acquisition of Fast, worth US$1.2 billion, closed in April.Fast offers Microsoft high-end enterprise search technology, complementing Microsoft's existing enterprise search tools aimed at the lower end of the market, including its Search Server products.