Bill Gates opens Global Technical Support Centre in Bucharest
Topic: Economy (Feb 1, 2007)
The founder of the Microsoft empire and the world’s richest man, Bill Gates, officially opened the Microsoft Global Technical Support Centre in Bucharest on Thursday morning, launching at the same time the company’s latest operating system, Windows Vista.
Gates appreciated the moment as very important and praised the professional skills of his company’s 300 Romanian employees.
Gates sees Romania as a leader in employing e-governance programs and promised that Microsoft would invest in its software so to become more accessible for children and to improve the education system, given the one billion users worldwide.
The event was attended to by the Romanian president, Traian Basescu, and the prime minister, Calin Popescu Tariceanu.
Gates’ promotional tour for Windows Vista will end on April 30.
“Piracy helped the young generation discover computers. It set off the development of the IT industry in Romania,” president Basescu said during a joint news conference with Gates.
“It helped Romanians improve their creative capacity in the IT industry, which has become famous around the world … Ten years ago, it was an investment in Romania’s friendship with Microsoft and with Bill Gates.”
Vista is already challenged by several major IT&C players, who accuse the perpetuation of illegal practices in the European Union. The group gathering IBM, Nokia, Sun Microsystems, Adobe, Oracle and Red Hat said their complaints will be filed before the system is officially marketed.
[HotNews.ro]
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