SEATTLE - Microsoft is suing Google for hiring away one of its executives.

Microsoft also is suing the executive, Kai-Fu Lee, to enforce a one-year non-compete clause.

Google has hired him to head up a research and development center in China.

Microsoft says Lee is breaking a promise he signed when he joined Microsoft five years ago.

He established Microsoft's research lab in Beijing and at one point oversaw development of the MSN Internet search technology, including a desktop search service released earlier this year.

The suit was filed in King County Superior Court in Seattle. Google did not immediately return a call for comment.
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Aparently Microshast is tired on being the one sued and needs to be on the other end of the stick for once...

funny thing is is that is thier trick. If they can not buy a company they want, they hier all the key people out from under the company, then compete with them head to head.