India a threat to Microsoft: Bill Gates
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From the Financial Times: India a threat to Microsoft: Bill Gates
Microsoft Corp Chairman Bill Gates said on Wednesday the software giant faced growing competition from companies in China and India but, for now, the strength in those countries lies in software services.
Gates, on his first visit to Israel, said Israeli companies would also confront increased competition from China and India.
"There will be competitors for Microsoft and for Israeli companies coming out of those countries although today the success, particularly in India, has mostly been in the software services area, outsourcing work, doing call centres and things like that," Gates told a news conference.
Then if they consider India a threat, how come we keep getting stories about how they've committed to increase their staffing over there? It seems rather strange that you'd complain about a country being a threat, at the same time you're leveraging their lower cost skills to create and sell your software...
From the Financial Times: India a threat to Microsoft: Bill Gates
Microsoft Corp Chairman Bill Gates said on Wednesday the software giant faced growing competition from companies in China and India but, for now, the strength in those countries lies in software services.
Gates, on his first visit to Israel, said Israeli companies would also confront increased competition from China and India.
"There will be competitors for Microsoft and for Israeli companies coming out of those countries although today the success, particularly in India, has mostly been in the software services area, outsourcing work, doing call centres and things like that," Gates told a news conference.
Then if they consider India a threat, how come we keep getting stories about how they've committed to increase their staffing over there? It seems rather strange that you'd complain about a country being a threat, at the same time you're leveraging their lower cost skills to create and sell your software...
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