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Microsoft Employees Love Their iPhones

Posted by timothy on from the can-I-expense-this? dept.

portscan writes "There is an entertaining and telling article in the Wall Street Journal about iPhone use by Microsoft employees. Apparently, despite it being frowned upon by senior management, iPhone use is rampant among the Redmond rank and file. The head of Microsoft's mobile division tried to explain it away as employees wanting 'to better understand the competition,' although few believe this. Nowhere does the article mention attempts by the company to understand why the iPhone is more attractive to much of Microsoft's tech-savvy workforce than the company's own products."

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  1. Re:I loves and hateses my Preciousss by timmarhy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    yes it is apples fault because they went with At&t in the first place. fail.

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  2. Re:Victory against monoculture by timmarhy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    mono culture is good at times. look at the desktop market, you can't tell me there isn't benefits in having a monoculutre there - it allows users to have one familar gui.

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  3. Re:I loves and hateses my Preciousss by secolactico · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Damn this stupid phone. I really should throw it back into the depths of Cupertino from whence it came, but you'd probably have to gnaw my hand off to get me to drop it.
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    Doesn't whence means "from where" rendering the "from" in "from whence" redundant?

    I guess I'm pedantic now.

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