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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. amateurs by nomadic · · Score: 1, Troll

    Better weaselly PR explanation: "Microsoft employees enjoy the iphone because it is a platform for the exciting apps Microsoft has developed."

  2. iPhone mania by Watertowers · · Score: 0, Troll

    So do MS think they can copy it or are they just trying to extract all the ip they can. I doubt they will be able to buy Apple which is there normal path to "creating" new technologies.

  3. Re:I loves and hateses my Preciousss by The+End+Of+Days · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'll get modded down, but my analogy is extremely apt.

    What if I want Steve Jobs to suck my dick?

    Seriously, what if I wanted that? What is my recourse? He's not offering it to me, in no way has he even made an overture I can interpret that way, so is my desire in any way realistic?