● 07.27.08

●● Microsoft is Watching

Posted in Asia at 4:05 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

“Gathering intelligence on enemy activities is critical to the success of the Slog.”

–Microsoft, internal document [PDF]

A good place to start this would be one news item from the Indian press. It shows how aggressively Microsoft is trying to steal employees from Adobe. It’s espionage.

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Head hunters may like to call this intelligence gathering. Microsoft is in the process of engaging several executive search firms to conduct extensive talent mapping exercises focused on Adobe’s development centers in Bangalore and Noida. These two centers collectively employ close to 700 people primarily constituting product development specialists at various levels of seniority.

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They tried this against Yahoo and perhaps Borland too. Inside interventions were explained here very recently. It’s vicious and brutal. We will probably come back to this in the near future. Until then, consider this older post about Microsoft’s dossiers on reporters. █

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