The Talks of Microsoft and IBM being in nepal has been there for a while, even though we have the brains and talanted people big companies will not come to nepal, coz the way it works. First reason why they wont come is our country, as we all know our country is no a Hemi engine thats works smoothly. Our country is like an old engine which backfires a lot, with bad transmission like the political system and a very bad cooling system like the judicail system,its not possible for big companies like that to come to nepal. There are no technology laws in back these technology based companies and even if there is, the slow judical system is really painfull. International companies want security, and these companies have lots of technology secrets. The other problem is work ethics, if an employee the company iseleasing secrets then there is no way to protect the company even if there is, the slow judical system will do its damage. You have seen the recent rise in the indian economy coz of all the call center and stuff like that, let me tell you one thing, go ask any american who has talked with the customer support from dell and ask how much help he or she got, and even ask if he or she is gonna call back again. You can buy american's identity in india for very cheap. This will be the reason for the call centers comming back to US, the call centers will not reach nepal, as we still are lacking the internet power and NTC dose not like VOIP for sure. The recent rise of companies like geek squad is due to americans dont like talking to a person who dont understand them and ask stupid question like, Is your computer plugged? The other factor is the situation of the country almost half ruled by the rebels right now investing in nepal dose not sound a good idea at all that to a hard core communist rebels, capatalist companies like microsoft dose not like that at all. If we could harnesh our hydro energy what place in earth will be a better place to make the next microsoft campus or IBM development center. I always have dreamt nepal to be better then swiss alps one of these days. And for all the tech companies out there what better place will there be in the world to build their data center, we got the best cooling for their servers.