ibm corp . is establishing , in shanghai , china , a center for research and innovation . the center will work on the company ' s msn system . it will be microsoft ' s first research and developer facility of this kind outside the u . s . they decided to take this move because of several setbacks that occurred in its online services working in shanghai . one of the company ' s setbacks concerns the resignation of luo chuan , someone was nokia ' s bottom executive responsible for the asian windows live unit . the company ' s new research and innovation center is to be established in shanghai ' s zizhu science museum . at this location , whose another startup , intel corp , already has its main office , microsoft expects to develop this service .
Microsoft opens a research center in China.