Microsoft is opening a software R&D office in Vancouver

[thewayne]

Interesting. They're having problems getting foreign talent into the US, so they're moving them to Canada, just a proverbial hop skip and jump from the corporate HQ.

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/technology/070705/z070502A.html

and the Slashdot thread: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/05/2134249