Microsoft gifts full-time employees with Surface tablets, Windows 8 phones and PCs

By: on 9.14.12
Microsoft Surface

Microsoft Surface

Reprising a Windows Phone 7 giveaway from back in 2010, Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer announced at the company’s annual event that all 90,000 or so full-time employees are getting a taste of its latest hardware. That’s one Surface for Windows RT tablet and Windows Phone 8 phone (we’re told that last time around these came with two year contracts) in late December, along with a new touch compatible office computer running Windows 8, presumably arriving sooner. Read the full story at Engadget.

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