10% of Microsoft Employees Using iPhones

[stevearm]

Wow, 10%. So what?

It's a great phone, why wouldn't they use it?

 

[hitekalex]

WP7S confuses dazzle with usability.

You have never used a WP7S phone first hand.. and therefore your conclusion about WP7S somehow lacking usability and substance is premature and baseless. Or perhaps it is based on your prejudice against any thing Microsoft.

I will withdraw my conclusion about WP7S usability until there are actually some shipping products I can try out. For now, I will just say it looks "interesting".

 

[Stella]

who cares indeed?

No very many people so far!

 

[Skuman]

10,000 is the number of employees using iPhones.

Out of 90,000 employees, that's about 10%.

Ooops, my bad.

 

[kiljoy616]

My teacher used to work for Microsoft as part of network security. She said that Microsoft "strongly dont recommend" using a competitors product.

When she was caught using a Palm phone, and essentially got a slap on the wrist. She said she came in the next day with her iBook showing it off to everybody.

hahaha, my kind of person, good old KM ASS personality.

 

[MacintoshMan]

so? 20% of the country uses iphones. I don't see the point of this story.

Where did you get that %? At that number 61,401,310 people have an iPhone.

 

[Skibsted]

This story is hilarious!

 

[thejadedmonkey]

wondering if apple has such rules on their employess? would it ban nexus one?

off topic: Bill Gates ban his children from getting any apple product (including iPod touch and iPhones), it must be tuff for them lol.

No, Apple would just fire the person using the nexus one, no need for a ban!

Seriously arn & co., are you that desperate for ad revenue? This isn't a rumor, or even news. It's just random fluff for page views.

 

[3282868]

Where did you get that %? At that number 61,401,310 people have an iPhone.

I believe he meant "20% of mobile phone users" use an iPhone

 

[ibosie]

The fact that they can check work email means that the Exchange servers are configured to allow it. So clearly whoever made that decision isn't sticking it to iPhones.

My thoughts exactly. At a glance it's refreshing to know iPhones are not barred - I might mention it to our own IT dept, if Microsoft allow iPhones why can't we?

 

[JAT]

Why wouldn't that be considered cost cutting? Do you think Microsoft pays themselves full retail price when they buy a Windows Mobile device?

Reimbursement goes to personally-owned phones, not company phones. Still hilarious, though.

 

[twoodcc]

haha. i find this rather amusing. i wonder what Ballmer thinks when reading this

 

[LLIBSETAG]

Survey Says!

10% Apple iPhones
?% Blackberry Phones
?% Palm Phones
?% Nokia Phones
?% Droid Phones
?% Google Phone
?% Windows OS Phones

 

[justperry]

The report notes that Microsoft last year changed its corporate mobile phone reimbursement policies to cover only device running Windows Mobile, although company executives have stated that the move was a cost-cutting measure rather than an attempt to clamp down on employe usage of devices from Microsoft's competitors.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has famously objected to his employees' iPhone usage, even singling out an iPhone-toting Microsoft employee at a company meeting and playfully pretending to stomp on the device.

Is it not so that You live in a free country where You can do what You want,Steve Ballmer can't just forbid his employees not to Use iPhones, can He?

 

[scottness]

haha. i find this rather amusing. i wonder what Ballmer thinks when reading this

He probably sent one of his staff to go get an iPhone so he could stomp on one again.

 

[SandynJosh]

And the other 90% are using?

Steam-powered or hand cranked wimo phones with full-sized keyboards because the dancing monkey is certain, "business users want a keyboard."

 

[mdatwood]

I'd be more interested to know how many Microsoft employees use Macs.

It used to be that MS was actually a pretty open company to any technology the employees wanted to use to get their job done. They just didn't care because geeks are geeks and that's that.

 

[giosaccone]

Ahahaha!!! Wonderful news!!

 

[Darkroom]

Hot??? If Apple had put this out, the technorati would be screaming about style over substance, form over function. Hipster design gone mad. The goofy text spilling off the screen, the gigantic icons on the home screen that take up 1/6th of your screen to tell you how many email messages you have, massive app icons (6 to a screen? Really?)...this is the kind of stuff that fills the Apple-haters with rage.

But since it's from Microsoft, they're celebrating the spectacle. From the Engadget peanut gallery (notoriously pro-Microsoft, of course):

"Microsoft your my homey."

"Seriously, in LOVE."

"That AP app makes me cry tears of joy."

Load up on page flip transitions and they're completely snowed. Bizarre. My bet is using this thing for more than a day would become tedious to the extreme. Finger flicking gone wild. Only time will tell, of course, but these demos scream pure eye candy at the expense of usability.

engadget is not notoriously pro-microsoft. based on this unbelievably ridiculous rant and your clear bias easily noted from your avatar, the fact is that you are notoriously anti-microsoft.

get a grip.

 

[3282868]

engadget is not notoriously pro-microsoft. based on this unbelievably ridiculous rant and your clear anti-microsoft bias easily noted from your avatar, the fact is that you are notoriously anti-microsoft.

get a grip.

Regardless of anyone's bias, I frequented Engadget a few times but found (in my experience) the anti-Apple pro-Microsoft rants to be even more alarming then the reverse on MacRumors (although MACRumors being an Apple fan site forum, it is expected).

 

[goobot]

bungie ms's game making b*tch uses macs and iphones

 

[giosaccone]

At least Microsoft allow employees to connect to their work email. In my office iPhones are banned from the corporate network, you have to buy a blackberry otherwise.

that injustice!

 

[LagunaSol]

You have never used a WP7S phone first hand.. and therefore your conclusion about WP7S somehow lacking usability and substance is premature and baseless.

Premature, yes. Baseless, perhaps not. I don't know how getting one of these in-hand is going to make all that finger swiping overload any more appealing. The UI is pretty clear from the demo videos.

Or perhaps it is based on your prejudice against any thing Microsoft.

I loathe Microsoft, but that doesn't make my puzzlement over the WP7S swooshing UI any less relevant. I give them kudos for not doing an iPhone knockoff (which is what I fully expected), but I do think they have gone to the other extreme - and not in a good way. Frankly, it looks like a UI designed by an ad agency.

For now, I will just say it looks interesting".

It looks "interesting" like a wild PowerPoint show. But yes, full judgement must be reserved for actual ship date.

 

[Compile 'em all]

So what?

Microsoft employees can buy whatever phones they like.

I expect SonyEricsson employees use Nokia phones, and vice versa.

Uhm...no. I know for a fact that if you work for Nokia (finland) it is looked down upon if you use an iPhone.

 

[SandynJosh]

Last time I checked, Microsoft had 90,000 employees, not 10,000.

you must have really struggled with story problems in math class.