Microsoft's Sneak Attack On Apple: SkyDrive, Not Surface

Posted by timothy on Thursday August 30, 2012 @07:40AM from the as-long-as-it-works-on-my-windows-phone dept.

New submitter curtwoodward writes "Microsoft won't become a hardware company — unless you count mice and keyboards, former Microsoftie Charlie Kindel argues — because that would mean competing with Apple on its terms. But Kindel says Microsoft may be embarking on a totally new business model by seeding its connected software services across all platforms. You saw more evidence this week with the release of SkyDrive for Android. 'For that to work, it can't just be Windows,' he says. 'As a matter of fact, to beat Apple, it has to work really well on Apple devices.'"

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Re:Ohrly? Simple: by mujadaddy · 2012-08-30 07:57 · Score: 4, Funny

Microsoft sues for anti-trust.

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Re:Not a hardware company? by deltaromeo · 2012-08-30 08:00 · Score: 5, Funny

They really don't think of the Xbox as hardware?
No, they were thinking outside of the x box
Re:Ohrly? Simple: by dna_(c)(tm)(r) · 2012-08-30 08:12 · Score: 4, Funny

Microsoft sues for anti-trust.
After all, they have irony clad arguments to do that!