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Microsoft opening doors in Vancouver

by davidcrow

My employer, Microsoft Canada, announced that they are opening a new software development centre in Vancouver in the fall of 2007. It looks like MSFT is joining the ranks of Apple, which opened a development center in Yaletown.

The Microsoft Canada Development Centre will operate as one of a handful of development centers outside the company's Redmond, Wash., headquarters; the others are located in North Carolina, Ireland, Denmark and Israel.

This is huge! I wish that the centre was going to be in Toronto. But this is a great start. It means that software products are being built in Canada. It will help bring additional talent and opportunities to Canada. Hopefully, the long-term impact will be to seed the Vancouver area with Fairchildren. This assumes that there aren’t fantastic design and development companies already in Vancouver, and that would be wrong. Here’s a short-list of existing companies:

  • Bryght
  • EA Canada
  • Habaneros
  • OpenRoad Communications
  • Nitobi
  • ActiveState (thanks Greg)

It does make me wonder about the spinouts of other Canadian technology success stories. Where are the spinouts of Corel (is Halogen Software an offshoot?), RIM, Nortel?

Posted on July 5, 2007 Filed Under: Articles

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