Unlike Palm's CEO, Microsoft's employees seem to be nuts for the iPhone, so much actually, that it's getting embarrassing.
While they'll probably tell you it's out of professional interest, as much as 10,000 Microsoft employees, or one out of then according to the Wall Street Journal, accessed their corporate email account from an iPhone last year.
This embarrassing situation didn't go unnoticed and a first attempt to tamper with it was made last year already, when Microsoft modified its corporate cellphone policy to only reimburse service fees for Windows Phone owners, without much success.
They didn't go as far as banning the device, but the practice is definitely criticized. As Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO whose father worked at Ford put its; Work for Ford, Drive a Ford.
I guess that explains why their new Mobile OS seems so similar to the iPhone...