Re: Microsoft pays dear for insults through ignorance

[Sabahat Ashraf <techwhirling -at- gmail -dot- com>]

On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 09:08:23 -0400, Lee Hunter <lee -dot- hunter -at- hum -dot- com> wrote:
> 
> oudeis wrote:
> 
> > In a frank assessment of the company's problems in trying to be a global
> > player without offending local sensibilities, Tom Edwards, its senior
> > geopolitical strategist, said employees' lack of basic geography was to
> > blame.
> 
> Not too surprising.
> 
> According to a National Geographic survey of young Americans (18-24) a
> few years ago
> 
> - 30 percent couldn't find the Pacific Ocean on a map
> - 60 percent couldn't find Japan
> - 11 percent couldn't even find the US
> - 1/3 thought the US population was between 1 and 2 billion

So yer saying that moving most of development to Hyderabad India will
solve the problem?

S
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