Ex-Microsoft Exec Alleges Incompetence
Hey! This is starting to get interesting! :-)
An AP newswire article by Gene Johnson, via Yahoo! News, reports that:
Former Microsoft Corp. executive Kai-Fu Lee accused the software titan of incompetence in its plans to gain a business footing in China, and testified Tuesday that an expletive-filled tirade from Chairman Bill Gates was a low point before he defected to rival Google Inc.
In testimony during a hearing on Microsoft's lawsuit against Lee and Google, Lee said he wrote a memo to another Microsoft executive saying he was "deeply disappointed at our incompetence in China — that we have wasted so many years in China with little to show for it."
Lee went on to say in the e-mail that he was embarrassed by Microsoft's business practices and that people in the government joke about Microsoft's internal politics. But he didn't provide any details in his testimony Tuesday about what exactly the Chinese government was frustrated with.
The former executive testified that one of the lowest moments of his career with Microsoft was a conversation in which Gates yelled at him and said that the company had been "f-----" by the Chinese people and its government. Lee did not clarify the context of Gates' comments.
Lee also complained that Microsoft had more than 20 business groups operating virtually autonomously in China, with little cohesion.
posted by Fergie @ 9/06/2005 04:42:00 PM
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