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At last: Microsoft incentivizes employees to use Windows Mobile phones! June 18, 2009 [General] | By Edward J. R. We were annoyed when we have seen at various places Microsoft employees using phones not powered by Windows Mobile and latest move of Microsoft might change it slighlty: Recently Microsoft has fired few thousand people to show off, that they are implementing some cost reductions too. Now, as a further step, Microsoft has decided not to pay back for cellular data plans of their employees if they don't use Windows Mobile phones! Since some data plans are bound to RIM BlackBerry usage or to iPhone usage or to Palm Pre usage - clearly it was silly that Microsoft was indirectly sponsoring these devices that are competitive to Windows Mobile. We know of many more cases where Microsoft employees and Microsoft partners are using and promoting smartphones that are in direct competition to Windows Mobile - like iPhone and Google Android - but this is a wholly different fairytale that we will not discuss here. Here the topic is: Microsoft at last is putting in place some real (financial!) incentive to foster usage of Windows Mobile phones among their employees. Finally let us not forget about dog food: To say that a company "eats its own dog food" means that it uses the products that it makes. "Dogfooding" is a means of conveying the company's confidence in its own products. Too often we can see companies that are selling some products or services, but are running their mission-critical stuff not on their own products. Finally we hope, that situation where Microsoft is releasing mobile software for iPhone only, without even releasing any version for Windows Mobile - as it happened here and here - will not happen again...  Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 3 Comments ]
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