Windows Phone 7 team lead Brandon Watson has extended an invitation to hacker Geohot to "build cool stuff" on WP7. He’s offering a free phone to speed things up, with the reasoning that it would "let dev creativity flourish".

http://twitter.com/BrandonWatson/status/27508118367772672

Another company blocking jailbre... wait... wut... O_o

The more ways are found for it to be broken with Microsoft being a good guy, the better are Microsoft's chances of fixing it. They're taking a nice approach to this whole ordeal.

Windows phone 7 is already an open platform. All you have to do is pay MS a 100 dollars to "developer unlock" it...lol

Now in MS's defence, for that price they do provide programming tools, phone emulators and other goodies for XNA app and game development.

I can see Gehotz not being interested after this..."What do you mean, I can't piss off a company with my hacks? Forget it then..."

Seeing as how he wanted to work with Sony I doubt he would be that annoyed. He'll probably be ecstatic if he can get a job at MS

MS should make him travel back in time to 2007 and put him in charge of Vista driver tech support phone line... that will teach him! :)

I think this dude is smarter than that. He might prefer working for himself and earn its own merit than being employed at any company.

No, he offered to help the big 3 with the defense of their next system... Just google "geohot wants to work with sony"

@disolitude

lol!

I think it would be awesome to have geohot defending the next xbox, though I have to ask why isnt anybody helping me defend MS in the other Geohot thread hmmm?

I thought you were doing good. No point in me jumping in :P