Danas je u Rovinju otvorena jubilarna deseta Microsoftova tehnološka konferencija WinDays Technology, ujedno i vodeća hrvatska tehnološka konferencija koja će u četiri dana okupiti više od 1500 stručnjaka s područja informatičkih i telekomunikacijskih tehnologija, kao i poslovnih posjetitelja.
Posjetitelji konferencije WinDays Technology ovih će dana moći prisustvovati na više od 130 predavanja koja će tijekom osam paralelnih smjerova održati brojni ugledni predavači iz Hrvatske i inozemstva. Microsoft će idućih dana također objaviti javnu dostupnost mnogih svojih proizvoda i omogućiti posjetiteljima da se s njima upoznaju iz prve ruke, premijerno u Hrvatskoj.
Konferencija Microsoft WinDays ove je godine podijeljena u dva dijela pa će se u četvrtak i petak, 22. i 23. travnja, također u Rovinju, održati i poslovna konferencija WinDays Business.
\"MICROSOFT\'s Chinese workforce, too tired to stay awake\" . Showing Chinese sweatshop workers slumped over their desks with exhaustion, it is an image that Microsoft won\'t want the world to see. Employed for gruelling 15-hour shifts, in appalling conditions andd 86f (28C) heat, many fall asleep on their stations during their meagre ten-minute breaks. For as little as 34penny an hour, the men and women work six or seven days a week, making computer mice and web cams for the American multinational computer company. Photos of this and others like it were smuggled out of the KYE Systems factory at Dongguan, China, as part of a three-year investigation by the National Labour Committee, a human rights organisation which campaigns for workers across the globe. The mostly female workers, aged 18 to 25, work from 7.45am to 10.55pm, sometimes with 1,000 workers crammed into one 105ft by 105ft room. They are not allowed to talk or listen to music, are forced to eat substandard meals from the factory cafeterias, have no bathroom breaks during their shifts and must clean the toilets as discipline, according to the NLC. The workers also sleep on site, in factory dormitories, with 14 workers to a room. They must buy their own mattresses and bedding, or else sleep on 28in-wide plywood boards. They \'shower\' with a sponge and a bucket. ...................