Take this with a grain of salt, but according to an anonymous Microsoft developers who’s been posting on Reddit, Steve Ballmer really hates to see MS employees with iPhones on the campus and has threatened to ban the iPhone from syncing with MS’s mail servers:
I use a windows mobile smartphone because we got some discounts on them. I like it for exchange support and such, but i’m not completely happy with it. Blackberries are “allowed” but you can’t sync to our mail servers. iPhone can sync to our mail servers, although Balmer has threatened to disable it because he hates seeing iPhones on campus
Well I can’t blame Steve for doing this. I’ve witnessed with my own eyes several times these past months/years , MS employees flashing their iPhones during MS Techdays (and other Microsoft developer/IT events). Even worse and totally unacceptable, members of the Windows Mobile team who didn’t even know how to use a WinMo device (I’m not making this up, believe me). Now if everybody at Microsoft was forced to use a Windows Mobile device (as their work phone) they would probably realise how far behind it has fallen and do everything they can to fix this (hello WM7..). After what happened last week I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s true.
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