Just a week ago we reported that Microsoft through your account Windows Phone, had launched an aggressive campaign against one of its main competitors in the mobile device market, Android. A tweet sparked controversy by offering gifts to those Twitter users who spoke ill of the operating system of Google recounting some unpleasant experience with malware. The fan community of Android has responded to this provocation.
Last week we told you that Microsoft had sowed one more controversy when attacking Android and its (alleged) vulnerability to malware attacks. Those of Redmond asked their followers on Twitter to tell their best-worst experience in this regard and in return they offered the odd gift. At that time some page specialized in the operating system of Google had fought back by recalling the long tradition of Windows when it comes to suffering infections, especially if we take into account their software to PC that for many years has been considered by many as a true strainer.
However, the user community of Android He has also responded on his own by moving the hashtag #WindowsRage instead of #DroidRage (the one initially proposed by microsoft) to bring out the colors of Redmond. As often happens on these types of occasions, the creativity of the crowd leads to really funny messages. Android Authority He has highlighted the following as an example: "I once thought of creating malware for @WindowsPhone, but then I asked myself, don't they have enough?".
on the Internet they have remembered that it is not the first time that Microsoft carries out this maneuver, and that the campaign is but the replica of another that they already put into practice last year around this time. The gift for users with the best anecdote will be one of the phones of their operating system, however, the objective of this controversy is not simply to compensate the poor users most affected by malware from Android, but to gloat over the problems of the most popular mobile phone system.
The question is whether in the end Microsoft He does not receive more criticism than praise for perpetrating actions like this, although, beyond all doubt, controversies thus serve him to achieve notoriety, making at least his own the maxim talk about me, even if it's bad.