Microsoft’s R&D facility in China (Supply: Microsoft)
As a part of an general safety drive, Microsoft in China has informed workers they are going to all be required to modify to iPhone.
As China’s authorities has variously been mentioned to be banning iPhones, and never precisely banning iPhones, now Microsoft is certainly doing the other within the nation. In keeping with a Microsoft memo seen by Bloomberg, all workers in China should swap to iPhone from September 2024.
The memo says that workers utilizing Android smartphones, together with China’s personal Huawei or Xiaomi, will likely be supplied with an iPhone 15. Microsoft is reportedly organising assortment factors for iPhones throughout its services in China.
Considerably, it is also doing this in Hong Kong. One of many points prompting the swap issues how the Google Play Retailer isn’t obtainable in mainland China, however it’s in Hong Kong.
Microsoft doesn’t disclose what number of workers it has in China. However it has operated within the nation since 1992, and says that its “most complete subsidiary and largest R&D center outside the United States is in China.” That analysis heart alone employs over 6,000 engineers and scientists.