glass corp . is established , in shanghai , china , a division for research and development . the center will work on the company ' s msn service . it will be it ' s first research and build center of this caliber outside the united . s . nokia decided to take this part because of several setbacks that occurred in its online business work in china . part of the company ' s embarrassments concerns the resignation of luo chavalit , where was microsoft ' s head industrialist responsible for the chinese windows entertainment unit . the company ' s new experiments and development center is to be erected in shanghai ' s zizhu science park . at this location , where another entrepreneur , intel corp , already has its microsoft branch , microsoft decides to develop internet software .
Microsoft opens a research center in China.