Microsoft chairman Bill Gates’s declaration yesterday that the company plans to exercise more caution in acquisitions and investments should not affect the Israeli high-tech market too badly. While Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), the world’s largest software company, recently acquired several Israeli start-ups, most of its activity in Israel focuses on its Haifa development center, its first outside the US, which employs a staff of 170. Among other things, the center develops security technologies for Microsoft’s operating systems. Microsoft also has a marketing, sales, and support center in Herzliya.
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