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Oh! I always wondered what was the cause of the quality of MS products, and the reason why they are performing like this, thank you for the clarification Vinnie. "It's Made in India!"

I do not think that graduates overseas are better prepared, they have a better attitude as this financial genius says, they have the attitude that "ring$" to his CEO ear$, meaning:
"I'm willing to do anything for 95 cents/hour, (or less)"
Yeah! that's the attitude kid, that's the spirit..! Go for the extra mile without any gas!!

Why should a true American company have anything to do with a guy who consider ourselves useless?

Maybe because despite the fact that we are unemployable and therefore, unemployed he can make 170Million "USD" (not rupees) per contract from and "american" company?

Barack my friend, shouldn't we have a legislation somewhere to stop this? before we all end in jobs that cannot be outsourced, like janitor, plumber, warder with our unemployable American degrees? What is the point of creating thousands of jobs and then send them abroad only to increase the ROI of a greedy corporation? (and decrease quality)
If this genius really think this, he should stop sending his kids (like silk91 below) for training over here.
Vinnie and friends, stay at home and please leave your archaic royalty there it doesn't apply here.

THAT DUDE SUCKS,I GUESS THAT IS HIS VIEWPOINT ON AMERICANS.

I would have to agree with what has been said. The fact that American companies are choosing your workers over qualified employees in the states has little to do with your skill set and more to do with fact that you are willing to work for much less.

You click on silk91's profile and he works for HCL... so this just shows HCL's prejudice thought is through out his company, and probibly India's as a whole... So, mr silk91 how bout you and I have a tech challenge? then you might just see how damned idiotic you are... Never under estimate americans... We created the largest tech firms and we still understand the ins and outs of IT far more than india, why American firms outsource help desk and operations to india, but are hesitant to do more, but the fact are you can't even do those functions as our counterparts could... your just cheap labor - that's it ...

@USITGuru: thanks for your input, it's always valuable to hear from someone who's been on the other side and has a personal understanding of the system. Regardless of who is working on it, the most wonderful thing about IT is that it facilitates this kind of communication. Something we can all be proud to be a part of :D

@malteseowner: fundamentalist Christians in the U.S. engage in all kinds of crazy antics - and they *are* laughed at for it ;) Check out any of dozens of hilarous videos of charismatic fundamentalists falling to the floor seizing and babbling under the claim that's going to bring them prosperity or happiness in their personal lives. Don't think that one crazy religion is objectively less crazy than some other on account of your familiarity with it.

Well having that type of outsourcing isn't all it's cracked up to be, at least for IT call centers. I've already had several clashes with "wonderful" Indian friends whom were answering for Comcast's tech support. They offered little help if any and I ended up solving the porblem my self after all they're scripted attempts. Many of them whom are outsourcing recipients obviously like the boring repetitive slave like jobs. But who am I to judge. Maybe the sombi-like careers are the wave of the future. This is the same as some textiles companies who outsourced to other countries where the workers hammered for many hours at approximately $1 or $5 a day. If you want to see what their jobs look like, watch the movie "Transformers".

If we in America "married" two animals to bring on rainfall I believe we would be laughed at. And we Americans are unemployable? If he Indians have such practices such as this Wow! This is one for the Dave Letterman Show. My son worked at Dow Jones and his division was outsourced to HCL last fall.....so he is one of the unemployed now. After being employed for many years, he had to move back home and give up many things. Cannot find a job yet in this economy. Now to hear Microsoft is using HCL!!! My next computer will be a MAC for sure.

Mr. Nayar may find Americans unemployable for his business needs, but lots of other businesses find them quite employable. Mr. Nayar is making generalizations with a relatively small sample space. This kind of approach is usually imprudent because it discounts other equally legitimate and prosperous business models.

Companies like HCL make comparatively more revenues from taking on relatively well-defined work to serve the well-defined markets of their clients. In such situations, disciplined development is more of an asset than innovation. Companies such as Microsoft make comparatively more revenues from actually defining products and markets, so for them, innovation is relatively more important than disciplined development.

In the end, stereotypes of Indians or Americans exist because there is an element of truth to them. Americans are stereotypically more talented in innovation and less in disciplined development. Indians are stereotypically more talented in disciplined development and less in innovation. However, numerous counter-examples can be found to show that Americans are not that different from Indians. Furthermore, if the Indian companies defined products and markets more while American companies were given the development work, the stereotypes would probably shift.

Mr. Nayar may feel entitled to his points of view because his way of doing business has coincided with tremendous success. However his business success may just be coincidental with or correlate with his methods and opinions. However, it takes a lot more data and logic to be able to show a causal relationship between the success of his business model to the methods he uses. And in this, Mr. Nayar is a lot like many American executives and boards of public companies which attribute business success to being caused by the methods of the executives, when it may be correlation or coincidence at best.

Is Mr. Nayar a successful businessman? Absolutely! Can we attribute his success to his opinions and methods? Maybe...maybe not.