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Discuss “Microsoft starting to take an Apple approach to design”

The world is dichotomous. You have good and evil, light and dark, rich and poor, vanilla and chocolate, French and American, Christian and Muslim, sausage and bacon, MIT and CMU. However, one of the most high-profile of these comparisons has been getting more and more interesting in recent years: Apple and Microsoft.

Since Steve Jobs regained the helm of Apple Computer in 1997, the company has been at the forefront of what?s ?cool? in technology. The recent iPod explosion has, of course, amplified this trend. Apple?s retail stores, open in au courant malls and shopping districts worldwide, are drawing in thousands of customers a day. A number of respected publications, including The New York Times, referred to the brand new, ultra-small iPod...

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