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May 28, 2007

"Amnesty Bin" Contest Winners Announced

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Ok, the results are in and the judges have chosen the five best comments to the Microsoft "Amnesty Bin" contest.

As mentioned in Friday's article, the "Amnesty Bin" is a large plastic bin located in the Microsoft Zune development team's headquarters. Employees have been encouraged to ditch their current iPods and go exclusively with the Zunes they've been working on.

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Whether this has been a joke or a morale booster, no one's quite sure.

So, here we go with the top five comments which we feel best describe the situation:
"How to get iPods for free." - Sharpe

"We bit off more than we could chew." - Drew Skinner

"And every night after Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer went home, the Zune team would go and get their iPods back from the bin." - Geekmouth

"I thought it was a battery recycling bin for older iPods..." - airboyd

"15 Down....50 Million to Go...." - Dave

"Fill this bin by noon or Ballmer dies." - Samuel Maffei

Thanks for participating and if anyone has a contact within the Zune team's offices that can shed more light on the Amnesty Bin, we'd love to hear about it.

Congratulations to the winners and if your entry wasn't selected, we've got plenty of chances for fame, fortune and cool prizes in the future.

Posted by chrisbarylick at May 28, 2007 9:03 AM
Category: Fun
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What struck me about the "Amnesty Bin" was; One they chose a GREEN Apple the color of ENVY, Secondly here Microsoft goes again doing things against common practice, Bites out of opposite sides of the Apple as opposed to the way normal people eat an Apple, Starting in one place then either eating up or down around the Apple. Here is another example of Microsoft trying to change the way we do things!!!!

Posted by: Kenn Marks at May 28, 2007 12:27 PM

Hey i read bill gates quotes daily at Bill Gates quotesHe is really a master

Posted by: Bengalooru Furniture at May 28, 2007 12:35 PM

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