Microsoft's "Smoked Windows Phone" get ... Smoked?

The rand's Nathan Ingraham reports, Microsoft's Ben Rudolph, a laptop, a cellphone and an apology for Skattertech's Sahas Katta. Controversy over!]

Microsoft has a "Smoked Windows Phone" contest designed to Windows Phone's streamlined user interface to publish. It's clever, and Windows phone is indeed suitable for efficiency - but boy does it ever appeared just wrong.

The company is inviting people who do not own cell phones-Windows Microsoft Stores to stand in a competition. Participants perform a particular task is not simple - "like finding a five-star restaurant or updating your Facebook status" - on his cell phone at the same time that someone does the same thing on a Windows phone. If the non-Windows participant completed the task faster, he or she is a special issue of hunger Games HP's ultra Folio book wins. (There are ten per store.) Participants who fail to Windows Phone to smoke can turn in their phone for a Windows model.

Sounds simple. But when blogger Sahas Katta of Skattertech, the challenge of showing the weather in two cities, he said, he was able with its Windows Phone Samsung Galaxy Nexus beat. By sheer coincidence, he would put it before the lock screen and save the two weather widgets on the desktop display, so all he had to do was power on the phone.

Katta says that the Microsoft Store employees in Santa Clara, California, refused to acknowledge his victory as a victory. Also they explain their actions. Katta's account, he looks not done anything either to the letter and spirit of the rules violated.

When Microsoft titles a competition "Windows Phone smoked" and offer lavish prizes as laptops, it is clear that very, very confident that the odds are stacked in favor of Windows Phone. (I like to think of the carnival ring-throwing games.) But if Katta his facts right, it seems that Microsoft owe him an ultra book - and that any controversy about his story diffuses through the Folio fork over immediately. And if the company maintains that Katta was indeed Windows Phone smoked, it was officially declared.