Microsoft uses China's huge talent pool to create products
Seattle PI | at | by Mike
Microsoft expects its Beijing research center to start producing breakthroughs that could lead to global products in health care and other areas, the software maker's chief research officer said Wednesday as the center marked its 10th anniversary.
Microsoft is part of a wave of companies that are expanding research and development in China to serve its fast-growing market and take advantage of a huge Chinese talent pool of scientists and engineers.
Microsoft says its Beijing center, one of six, has already exceeded expectations, producing 260 innovations that have been added to products sold worldwide. The center is Microsoft's biggest outside the United States, with 350 researchers.