About 10 percent of Microsoft's employees worldwide use an iPhone, made by arch-rival Apple, The Wall Street Journal reports, and CEO Steve Ballmer isn't happy about it. He fake-stomped on an underling's iPhone at a company-wide meeting last year, and, while employees continue to furtively worship their iPhones, he has made it known that company loyalty is in his blood — his dad worked at Ford, his family drove only Fords. But is it fair, or even smart, to force iPhone-loving workers to use Windows Phone handsets? (Watch Steve Ballmer laugh off the iPhone)
Microsoft's best option is to make a better phone: What's Ballmer to do? asks Chris Davies at SlashGear. Buying Windows-based smart phones for its workforce would be "fiscally irresponsible," and forcing the workers to buy them would mean a lawsuit. If Microsoft wants its employees to "drink the Windows Mobile Kool-Aid," it has to make the upcoming Windows Phone 7 platform better than the iPhone.
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