Steve Ballmer praises the App Store

Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, recently held a conference at the University of Washington, he stated: "Apple has done a great job that allows people to sell and monetize their intellectual property". 

 
 

According Brier Dudley, a columnist at the Seattle Times, the relationship between Apple and Microsoft are warming. Rumors in January suggested that the search engine Bing could be integrated into Safari Mobile. 

Microsoft and Apple could unite against a greater threat: Google. Indeed, the relationship between Apple and Google do not seem at all rosy since the Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, was asked to resign from the board of Apple. 

Google is in full competition with Apple, since Google has released Android, an operating system for smartphones, Google Chrome, web browser or the next operating system: Google Chrome OS. 

Brier Dudley interviewed Steve Ballmer about the Google threat. The latter did not wish to answer and was just contented smile. [via AppleInsider]

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