MICROSOFT HANDS OUT 90,000 WINDOWS PHONE 7 DEVICES

Network World has confirmed that Microsoft will give each and every employee a free Windows Phone 7 (WP7) device.  That is around 89,000 employees.  When you combine that with the 1,000 attendees of Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference that will receive WP7 devices the total comes to 90,000.  This is expected to cost Microsoft roughly $20 million of the $500 million they are expected to spend to promote WP7. [BGR]