Ex-Microsoft Exec Testifies

Former Microsoft Corp. executive Kai-Fu Lee accused the software titan of incompetence in its plans to gain a business footing in China, and testified Tuesday that being yelled at by Chairman Bill Gates was a low point before he defected to Google Inc.

In testimony during a hearing on Microsoft’s lawsuit against Lee and Google, Lee said he had written a memo to another Microsoft executive saying he was “deeply disappointed at our incompetence in China -- that we have wasted so many years in China with little to show for it.”

Lee also testified that Gates had yelled at him, which a Microsoft spokeswoman denied.

Microsoft sued Google to prevent Lee from working for its rival in the Internet search engine arena.