Microsoft to hire more, unveils new campus
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The world&#39;s largest software maker, Microsoft, made its place in the Indian information technology firmament more secure. Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer, Microsoft, inaugurated the companyâs largest
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Microsoft is expanding a plan to draw mainframe customers to Windows for high-end applications. Under a program with the internal code name Mission Critical Microsoft, the company is trying to extend its current
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Microsoft Corporation is further expanding its presence in India with plans to open a research centre in Bangalore. The latest Microsoft research campus will open in January 2005, the Redmond, Washington-based software giant said.
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(InfoWorld) - Xerox has its legendary PARC labs. Now Microsoft has its famous parking lot. Work has just begun on a massive underground parking garage at Microsoft's Redmond, Washington, headquarters, a structure that should alleviate current parking headaches on the corporate campus. The buzz around this low-tech project at the high-tech giant's headquarters is growing locally since a television news crew went out to gawk at the hole in the earth. While hardly comparable to Boston's big dig project, the local news at least seems ready to add this one to the record books. One report called this the second largest underground garage in the western hemisphere, but Microsoft spokesman Lou Gellos said he had no idea where that factoid came from and couldn't confirm it. The garage will be around 1,440 feet (439 meters) long and 540 feet wide. In American football terms, that's four fields long and one and a half wide. It will have four floors of parking, all underground. Up to 5,000 cars will fit in the garage. Four additional office buildings and a green space will take up the area above ground. The garage and new buildings are part of a $1.3 billion campus expansion that Microsoft announced last February. At that time, expansion planners figured the garage would be above ground but as they got further into the design process, they came up with the idea of making it subterranean and placing additional offices and common areas above, said Gellos. The digging, which started the first week of June, will take until about October and the garage should be ready for use in the second half of next year. In another effort to reduce parking problems on campus, Microsoft has long offered employees free bus passes. It also has a fleet of Toyota Prius cars to shuttle workers around campus.
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BANGALORE, INDIA -- Microsoft Corp. is hiring hundreds of new staff for its operations in Hyderabad over the next 12 months, the company's chief executive officer, Steve Ballmer told reporters Monday in Bangalore, India.
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Microsoft announced it would set up its second Asian research facility in India's technology hub of Bangalore.
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PALO ALTO, Calif. --Â Microsoft Corp. may make more large acquisitions than it has done historically and become a more distributed company as opposed to moving key employees to its Redmond, Washington, headquarters, Chief Financial Officer John Connors said Monday.
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Microsoft Corp. is hiring hundreds of new staff for its operations in Hyderabad over the next 12 months, the company&#39;s chief executive officer, Steve Ballmer told reporters Monday in Bangalore, India.
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By Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.  Feb. 14--QUINCY -- The recent hiring of 15 technicians at Microsoft's data center here is the first wave of what officials say could be a job boom for skilled workers.
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Microsoft used a Seattle conference to show off some features of the next version of Project.
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Microsoft announced a major support upgrade, clearer road maps, and a new financing option for its Dynamics range of business applications on Wednesday.
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Microsoft plans to spend $235.5 million in schools worldwide, as part of a plan to triple the number of students and teachers trained in its software programs by 2013.
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The new facility, Microsoft's sixth, will open in July. The lab will be led by Jennifer Tour Chayes, marking the first time a woman has been tapped to lead one of the company's research centers.
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HYDERABAD, India  - Microsoft Corp. will hire  several hundred new staff at its new Indian campus in the next  year, its chief executive said on Monday, in a move aimed at  strengthening its presence in Asia's fourth-biggest economy.
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Software maker plans to move leaders in its Windows, Windows Live, and Windows Mobile units. Executives leaving the company include two prominent outside hires.
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Microsoft has tapped a former executive at Walt Disney to fill its CIO position, a move that shows the company continuing to fill top executive positions from outside the company.Tony Scott, who most recently was CIO at Walt Disney, will take over that same role at Microsoft in February, reporting to Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner. Scott, who also will be a corporate vice president at Microsoft, replaces Stuart Scott, who&#160;departed the company in November. The two are not related.Scott will manage Microsoft&#39;s 4,000-person IT organization, which is responsible for all of the technology systems supporting the company&#39;s worldwide sales, marketing, and services operations, as well as the enterprise systems and applications for all corporate processes.At Disney, where he was senior vice president in addition to CIO, Scott was the first CIO to manage the entire company&#39;s IT systems, according to Microsoft. Prior to Disney, Scott was CTO at General Motors and vice president of operations at Bristol-Meyers Squibb.There are a lot of new faces in the ranks of upper management at Microsoft, with a rash of them signing on to the company in the last six months. Just last week Microsoft revealed that company veteran Jeff Raikes, president of its Business Division, will&#160;leave the company in September. The company tapped an outside executive -- former Juniper Networks, Macromedia, and Adobe executive Stephen Elop -- to fill that role.Other new hires to the company since last July include: Dan Reed, Microsoft Research director of scalable and multicore computing in November; Robert Youngjohns, president of North American sales and marketing and corporate vice president in November; Brian McAndrews, senior vice president, Advertiser and Publisher Solutions Group in August; and Don Mattick, senior vice president, Interactive Entertainment Business in July.There is likely more new blood to come as Microsoft also confirmed last week several other executive departures: Bruce Jaffe, corporate vice president of corporate development; Charles Fitzgerald, Microsoft&#39;s general manager of platform strategy; and&#160;Rob Short, corporate vice president of the Windows Core Technology group.Apart from CEO Steve Ballmer and Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft&#39;s entertainment and devices division, many of the company&#39;s other top executives have joined the company in the past three years. They include the man widely seen as Gates&#39; successor, Chief Architect Ray Ozzie, who joined Microsoft in 2005. Kevin Turner, Microsoft&#39;s chief operating officer, and Steve Berkowitz, senior vice president of Microsoft&#39;s Online Services Group, also joined the company that year.
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The software maker expands its Visual Studio line of developer tools.