“Microsoft apparently plans to issue a new WP7 phone to all 89,000 of its employees, and would presumably be paying for those costly monthly data plans too,” Jon Brodkin reports for Network World.
“‘Every Microsoft employee will be getting a Windows Phone 7 phone,’ says Guy Gilbert, one of two Windows Phone executives I interviewed at PDC earlier this week,” Brodkin reports. “Do those Microsoft employees with non-Windows phones use BlackBerries, Androids, or iPhones? Gilbert did not say. The Nexus404.com blog says that Microsoft employees supposedly hide their iPhones when Ballmer and other executives come trotting around.”
Brodkin reports, “Microsoft employees even held a mock funeral to signal the impending death of Apple’s iPhone.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Depriving Microsoft employees of the ability to Copy-Paste is the height of irony.
We hope against hope that Windows Phone ’07 won’t mean the end of Ballmer’s reign at Microsoft.
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