Microsoft has decided to give every one of its employees a free smartphone running Windows 7 Phone, which could put the reported 10,000 iPhone users at Redmond in a quandary: which handset to use?
The decision, which emerged from via the usual social media channels from the company's Microsoft Global Exchange (mgx) event, will see the estimated employee base of 93,000 people in 100 countries receive a handset from an unnamed vendor. Microsoft has also been luring app developers.
Vendors which have signed up to make handsets based on the new mobile PS, due for launch at the end of 2010, include Dell, HTC, Samsung, Asus and LG. At a speculative base price of $300 per unit, the bill could stretch to as much as $27 million.
More: http://www.pcworld.com/article/201760/
The decision, which emerged from via the usual social media channels from the company's Microsoft Global Exchange (mgx) event, will see the estimated employee base of 93,000 people in 100 countries receive a handset from an unnamed vendor. Microsoft has also been luring app developers.
Vendors which have signed up to make handsets based on the new mobile PS, due for launch at the end of 2010, include Dell, HTC, Samsung, Asus and LG. At a speculative base price of $300 per unit, the bill could stretch to as much as $27 million.
More: http://www.pcworld.com/article/201760/