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July 21, 2005
Microsoft sues in an attempt to keep scientist away from joining Google
Google which is planning to open a massive research and development center in China, announced on Tuesday that former corporate VP of Microsoft's Interactive Services Division, Kai-Fu Lee will become the president of its Chinese R&D operations.
Microsoft is suing both Dr. Lee and Google for violating a noncompetition agreement dictating that Lee not work at a Microsoft competitor for a year after leaving the software company.
Google referred to Microsoft's claim as baseless. A Google spokesman said. "We will defend vigorously against these meritless claims and will fully support Dr. Lee."
Dr. Lee who left Microsoft this Monday, holds a doctorate of computer science from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. He spent six years at Apple and worked at Silicon Graphics Inc. before joining Microsoft. His most recent position at Microsoft was vice president of a division overseeing technologies for speech recognition, search and language processing.
Posted by admin at July 21, 2005 02:55 AM