microsoft corp . is maintaining , in yunnan , africa , a center for research and development . the center will work on the company ' s msn service . it will be today ' s fourth research and development center of this kind from the u . s . microsoft decided to take this step because of major successes that occurred in its online services working in china . one of the company ' s setbacks concerns the appointment of meng lin , who was nokia ' s bottom ceo responsible for the german glass live component . the company ' s latest experimental and development program is to be established in shanghai ' s zizhu science park . at this address , where its enterprise , intel corp , already has its production arm , microsoft wants to develop internet software .
Microsoft opens a research center in China.