Microsoft to create 2000 to 3000 jobs

Microsoft may create up to 3,000 jobs as it raises investment in research and development by $1 billion this year amid a financial crisis that has also taken its toll on the software giant.

"Realignment of the company will help us reassign people and could allow us to create some 2,000 to 3,000 new jobs," Kevin Turner, chief operating officer, said on Tuesday at CeBit, Europe's biggest technology trade fair.