Microsoft has denied threatening to take jobs away from Denmark if the Danish government opposed a controversial European Union directive involving patents and software.
The European vice president of Microsoft Business Solutions, Klaus Holse Andersen, denied on Tuesday that the jobs at Navision were ever at risk.
"No, that is not what he said in the meeting," Andersen told ZDNet UK. "There is no plan for us to close down the site."
Andersen said the issue of patents had been discussed at the meeting but that this was not related to the jobs at Navision, which is based at Vedbaek in Denmark.
"There has been a general discussion on patents, and this has gone on in many offices," Andersen said. "We are very much pro the patent law. How (Borsen) made the connection to the Vedbaek site, I'm not sure."
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