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Er, "kinda." The last time I had a close friend at microsoft (and so heard the scuttlebutt) was a year or so ago, and at least from that perspective, it sounde

Er, "kinda." The last time I had a close friend at microsoft (and so heard the scuttlebutt) was a year or so ago, and at least from that perspective, it sounded like everybody there had an iphone -- and used google to search for stuff... In other words, having a product, and actually getting your employees to use it when it isn't strictly necessary (e.g., they are gonna use MS compilers to compile stuff because it's pretty much necessary), aren't the same thing. [... and a significant amount of MS dev work was done on iphone projects (e.g. in bing)!]

wingspan 14y ago
Like others have already pointed out, the experience of one person in a 100k+ employee company is not broadly applicable. Many employees have iPhones, yes, but many also have Windows Phones as well. I agree with you that since there is really no mandate to use MS products, it is a good sign if employees do use them, since it can signal that they truly are better than the competition.