Microsoft's new focus: Issues on the home front
Seattle PI | at | by Mike
After spending years wrapped up in legal disputes and policy debates across the United States and around the world, Microsoft says it plans to begin playing a larger role in public issues in its home state.
The Redmond software company, Washington's second-largest private employer, intends to be "more connected with what goes on" in the state than it has been historically, said Brad Smith, Microsoft's general counsel, addressing the Association of Washington Business Policy Summit. He cited such issues as education and transportation.