Microsoft give Windows Phone 7 devices to their 89,000 employees

Microsoft give Windows Phone 7 devices to their 89,000 employees

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer enthusiastically announced Thursday that all attendees of Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference will receive a new Windows Phone 7 device. But that’s only about 1,000 phones Microsoft is giving away. Much more impressive, and expensive, is the fact that 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. (PDC-attending developers who receive a free phone have to arrange for their own data plans). Google world’s most attractive employer; Microsoft drops to #7

“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.

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