Microsoft's Challenge to iPhones and Androids Extended
Microsoft was due to end its "Smoked By Windows Phone"
When a company stands up to not only be counted, but to be challenged by all its competitors in a public cage match, you have to applaud. Microsoft store employees have been pitting their phones against iPhones and Androids from all over America. Many customers have found it entertaining. Some, however, have become irate.There was the man in Santa Clara who says he won but was then told he lost.
Then there was Vivek Viswanathan, a graduate student who threatened Microsoft with the dreaded legal profession after he claimed he won not once, but twice at the Atlanta store, only to be denied the "Hunger Games" Special Edition PC prize.Indeed, the Atlanta store might be something of a hotbed of amusement after another dissatisfied challenger wrote to me saying he was forced to take the challenge again after allegedly winning. The second time, he says, the Microsoft store representative "had an app loaded with data and simply finished it in 1 second." Microsoft, though, must be enjoying the entertainment the challenge is bringing to its stores.
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