Every Microsoft employee gets a free Windows Phone 7 handset

Microsoft is in a giving mood. Just last month they gave out hundreds of Xbox 360s to E3 attendees — even sent one to the TechCrunch office for no particular reason. Now they’re going to be giving away Windows Phone 7 handsets to every Microsoft employee, if we are to believe what we read on Twitter . We recently got our hands on a WP7 unit and put up our in-depth impressions of Microsoft’s new mobile OS , and our verdict is cautious optimism. But even if it were the hottest thing we’d ever seen, Microsoft would still be in a pickle when it comes to getting these things out there. Giving away something like 90,000 phones ought to help with that. I know for a fact now that I’m going to be seeing these around Seattle — there isn’t room to swing a cat in this city without giving a Microsoft employee a mouthful of hair. This little act of generosity (probably costing MS somewhere around $2-4 million, depending on costs) also serves as a sort of beta…
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