Microsoft giving Windows Phone devices to frustrated BlackBerry and iOS users

By George Wong on 10/13/2011, filed in Home > CellPhones

Microsoft giving Windows Phone devices to frustrated BlackBerry and iOS users While we know that RIM is working hard on fixing the recent BlackBerry outage, and a lot of folks are experiencing problems updating to iOS 5, Microsoft has decided to capitalize on the service’s downtime by drawing frustrated consumers to its side.

Ben Rudolph, Microsoft’s Windows Phone Evangelist, recently posted up a couple of Tweets saying that he is giving away 25 Windows Phone devices to BlackBerry and iOS users that Tweet him a reason to why they want to upgrade to Windows Phone. While 25 devices won’t add a lot of users to the Windows Phone market, it’s definitely going to make 25 people happy for getting a phone for free.

Those of you interested in getting a free Windows Phone device, hit up Ben Rudolph on Twitter and let him know why you want to upgrade. At the same time, be sure to follow us @Ubergizmo for all the latest news!

Microsoft: Microsoft is the company behind software like Windows, Microsoft Office and hardware like the Xbox and Kinect. The company was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. MS-DOS was the product that propelled Microsoft towards success, but it is Windows and Office that made it what it is today. Microsoft is currently engaged in a number of projects, including Windows 8, Windows Phone, Xbox, Office and the Azure cloud computing platform. the large majority of desktop computers run on Windows.

RIM: RIM is the acronym for Research In Motion, the Canadian company behind the BlackBerry brand. RIM was founded in the mid 90s by Mike Lazaridis and with Jim Balsillie and went IPO (Initial Public Offering) in 1998. Its claim to fame was to make mobile email really effective and enterprises quickly adopted its devices and associated software and services which were highly lucrative. With the rise of iOS and Android devices, the BlackBerry franchise bumped into trouble and its decline prompted RIM to take a radical step by overhauling its BlackBerry operating system (OS) completely with QNX. The first version of the QNX BlackBerry OS is BlackBerry 10 or BB10.

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