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10.16.06
Google Not Having Luck Hiring In India
 By Nathan Weinberg
The Times Of India reports that Google has had trouble finding enough quality talent to hire for its Indian offices.
India may have an exploding IT industry, but Google has been notorious in setting its standards super-high for job candidates, and it isn't finding enough bodies to put on the giant colored balls.
Google, which is considered to have a very low attrition rate even in the high-job-hopping Indian IT space, has found it more challenging to hire certain talent in India as compared to other parts of the world, the company's founder-director Kavitark Ram Shriram admitted recently.
The Indian origin founding board member of Google and a well-known venture capitalist said at an ‘Investing in India' conference in San Francisco, "I know first hand that we have had a bit more of a challenge trying to hire engineers for Google in Bangalore compared to the other parts of the world."
I'm hoping its more of a situation of growing pains for Google than a problem with the Indian workforce.
Is the problem on Google's side, or does India have quantity, but not enough quality?
About the Author:
Nathan Weinberg writes the popular InsideGoogle blog, offering the latest news and insights about Google and search engines.
Hosed By A Windows Update
 By Shel Holtz
I know Microsofties are listening out there, so rather than rant and rave, I'll just explain what happened and see if anyone from MS has a suggestion.
I'm running Windows XP SP-2 and have been happily running the public beta for Office 2007 (which I love). A minor problem has occurred whenever Microsoft releases an update. I have to repair the Office 2007 installation in order to get it working again.
After this past week's update, though, bigger problems occurred. I cannot get into Outlook, so I started a repair but got a message telling me the Office 2007 installation was corrupt and that I should reinstall.
So I tried reinstalling, but that only got about 20% through the process before it gave me an error (2711, I believe). I tried uninstalling Office 2007 but got the same corrupt installation error. And reinstalling Office 2003 did no good at all-I cannot launch Outlook 2003 because of a mismatched .dll file.
So I have no Outlook and, effectively, no Office installation. I do have to wonder if these updates are tested against installations of Office 2007, so many of which have been installed that Microsoft has started charging for it!
So...any Microsofties out there with a clue what I should do?
About the Author:
Shel Holtz is principal of Holtz Communication + Technology which focuses on helping organizations apply online communication capabilities to their strategic organizational communications.
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