Microsoft beklager, deler ut bærbar datamaskin og telefon til vinneren av #smokedbywindowsphone

After yesterday’s outcry about Microsoft not admitting defeat in a ‘Smoked by Windows Phone’ challenge that Sahas Katta claims to have won, Ben (“The PC Guy”) Rudolp has now taken to Twitter to issue a public apology to the winner, further offering him a free laptop and phone to make up for his original prize.

Unlike some people claimed, Katta, who was able to pull up weather info on his Galaxy Nexus faster than the Microsoft Store employee, did not root his phone or do anything else out of the ordinary, as he clarified in a comment yesterday. Instead, he just disabled the lockscreen, a native feature of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and one he uses regularly when jogging or hiking, thus beating the Windows Phone ever so slightly.

Selv om vi berømmer Ben og teamet i Microsoft for den raske og rettferdige løsningen, er det ganske klart nå at hele PR-reaksjonen og negative reaksjoner fra pressen har kostet deres Windows Phone-innsats litt mer enn de opprinnelige $1,000 som alt dette oppstyret ble laget over.

kilde: Ben Rudolp (Twitter)