Does Microsoft have a secret weapon for Windows Phone 7?

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Ed Bott: Microsoft got a lot of attention yesterday for its Oprah-style announcement that every employee would get a Windows Phone 7 device after the new mobile platform launches this fall. As it turns out, those freebie phnes aren’t just expensive toys or gadgets. They’re part of an effort to create some unexpected hits and seed the market using the energy from Microsoft’s enormous pool of internal developers.

That bit of news didn’t get picked up yesterday. I first heard about it from Mini-Microsoft this morning. The anonymous insider, in his thoughts on Microsoft’s quarterly earnings call today, mentioned something I hadn’t seen elsewhere...

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