You know I've been thinking a lot lately about the Microsoft and Apple partnership and I've done some research and I now think this really is a story about two kids who together decided they were going to carve up the entire planet. The cross-patent deal from '97 proves this agreement is still in play. This is why Vista is a clone of OS X - not because they copied but because that was the deal which guaranteed Apple's survival. Apple has a lot to be grateful for, but the deal ended in 2002. Now Apple's out on it's own two legs running quickly - winning the world over by it's own merits. Let's be happy consumers and let people make their choices. I don't think the Zune phone is anything to worry about - in fact it's great news.
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Microsoft Zune Phone - Holiday 2007?
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From a reality point of view I don't see how M$ could compete, the last few M$ releases haven't sold nearly as well as you'd expect.
Vista, Zunes and 360 haven't really made any huge impacts interms of how the competition are handling the releases. To M$'s credit they are trying to diversify there product from really just selling Office and Windows.
The M$ of old has had it's glory days and it's companies like Samsung that will take over.
Vista, Zunes and 360 haven't really made any huge impacts interms of how the competition are handling the releases. To M$'s credit they are trying to diversify there product from really just selling Office and Windows.
The M$ of old has had it's glory days and it's companies like Samsung that will take over.
Bottom line is... Apple innovates, Micrapsoft copies. It makes me laugh every time I see them release a carbon copy version of a mac product or software. It takes years and years for Apple to come out with the iPhone because Steve Jobs says it HAS to be perfect, and after an initial meeting... MS says that their version will be out in less than a year. That should be entertaining. I'm really happy to see that Apple has so many patents on the iPhone though... it will make it that much harder for them to Xerox it. Wonder how they can sleep at night knowing that they their whole lifes work is the equivalent of cheating on a test in grade school. 
They didn't have to think up any new features for Vista, and that still took them 6 years.
