Microsoft offers Android malware victims free Windows Phone handsets
Summary: Anyone suffering Droidrage?
Microsoft has kicked off a new social media marketing campaign - tell them your Android malware horror stories in exchange for a chance to win a free Windows Phone handset.
Note: Just to be clear, not everyone gets a handset, there are five up for grabs.
Ben Rudolph, Microsoft's Windows Phone "evangelist", kicked off the #droidrage campaign on Twitter:
It seems there are no shortage of people willing to share their #droidrage stories:
Others see it as a crass marketing campaign:
And some responses are so funny they deserve to win a phone:
Anyone suffering Droidrage?
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Very innovative of MS
RE: Microsoft offers Android malware victims free Windows Phone handsets
When your CRAP doesn't sell, give it away. Yeah, very innovative. Then again MS has never innovated.
RE: Microsoft offers Android malware victims free Windows Phone handsets
You need to catch up on current events.
Why don't you read a bit more than be an idiot troll.
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Yep. leave it to you toddy-farty to hijack a thread about MS and turn it into an Apple-bashing thread! Your family must be proud!!
RE: Microsoft offers Android malware victims free Windows Phone handsets
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/windows-phone-hit-by-sms-vulnerability/17099
RE: Microsoft offers Android malware victims free Windows Phone handsets
RE: Microsoft offers Android malware victims free Windows Phone handsets
No one ever said they don't attack but there are usually less attacks. For the same reason the big national banks are usually spoofed for phishing attacks over a smaller local or regional bank.
I am sorry these simple concepts escape you.
You are right
And this one is not being exploited.
Linux has a ton of vulnerabilities as does OS X. They typically aren't exploited because, as you wrote, hackers don't attack 1% marketshare.
RE: Microsoft offers Android malware victims free Windows Phone handsets
All OSs have bugs
That isn't the important news. Android has had its fair share of SMS related bugs too like for instance texting one person and having it sent to another and here is another which looks remarkably similar to the WP7 issue:
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2009-014.html
Like Android's bugs that are fixed by Google, this flaw will be fixed by Microsoft and then another vulnerability will be found and then fixed. This is the cycle for every OS in existence.
The difference is that Android's malware issues are not bugs, they are literally by design. There are advantages to Google's more open Android store so I'm not being unfair to Google here but there is 1 big disadvantage and that is malware. MS (and Apple) are only saying that if you are tired of that disadvantage, try out a different approach. If you aren't tired of it, you don't have any horror stories and you won't be interested in WP7. No problem.
Difference from proof of concept and "in-the-wild" attacks.
Google has had to remote delete millions of apps from users phones.
This is a smart move my MS to bring visibility to their product. Attack an area where Android is very very very weak in. Laughably weak.
RE: Microsoft offers Android malware victims free Windows Phone handsets
It's not an exploit or an attack.
RE: Microsoft offers Android malware victims free Windows Phone handsets
Crickets chirping? Did you not read the article?
"It seems there are no shortage of people willing to share their #droidrage stories:"
That isn't the sound of crickets chirping, that is the sound of frustrated Android users who want WP7 phones.
RE: Microsoft offers Android malware victims free Windows Phone handsets
Malware on Windows? Share you horror stories and get a free copy of Linux. www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/download
RE: Microsoft offers Android malware victims free Windows Phone handsets
I'd make up stories too for a free phone. Unfortunately, it's a garbage Windows Phone.
People will do just about anything for FREE!
Socratestfoot: Glad to see you change your tune
Now that you've admitted there is interest in this, I'll respond with this from itguy above:
"When your CRAP doesn't sell, give it away."
Linux is CRAP.
RE People will do just about anything for FREE!
Except Use Linux on their desktop of course