Ruling Lets ex-Microsoft Exec Work at Google

[crbuys]

Google scored a majority victory in its nasty battle with Microsoft over the hiring of a former Microsoft executive.

A Washington State judge ruled today the hiring can proceed. The only stipulation was that the employee, Kai-Fu Lee, who is slated to head up Google's research office in China, cannot recruit from Microsoft.

"This ruling clears the way for Dr. Lee to … begin recruiting and building our R&D facility in China," Steve Langdon, corporate spokesman for Google, told internetnews.com. "He's already making phone calls and will be working in our Mountain View headquarters tomorrow."

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[MaD]

lol, the tension between M$ and Goooooogle are increasing by the day.. its going to be an interesting battle..

 

[rpm]

Nice to see some competition here. I think MS is finding it very difficult to break Google's stranglehold on Internet searching and related tech. This time they might just have to settle for the loss.