Attention Microsoft Employees: Get Ready to Single Task & Lose Copy/Paste. Your New Windows Phone Devices Are on Their Way to You

One of the most retweeted items among techie Twitter users yesterday was this item by ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley:

90K down… just under 30 million to go: RT @simchabe: Woot. Every single microsoft employee will get a windows phone 7 #mgx

While I’m glad that all Microsoft employees will get one of the new Windows Phone 7 powered phones, I don’t understand how this aligns with Microsoft’s state philosophy of WP7. Although WP7 is built on top of Windows CE like previous Microsoft handheld and phone platforms, it abandoned 15 years of Handheld PC, Pocket PC, and Windows Mobile roots.

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