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Ballmer Praises Apple’s AppStore, “A Very Nice Job”

Seems like the days of the cold war between Microsoft and Apple have come to an end. Or at least, that’s what we should assume reading this article from The Seattle Times which reports that Steve Ballmer, chief executive of Microsoft, called out the great work Apple has done so far with the App Store during a speeck at the University of Washington’s computer-science building.

Could this be a sign of Apple and Microsoft finalizing the details about Bing coming to the iPhone as default’s search engine? Or is Ballmer just getting older and putting the old contrasts away

I bet on Bing.

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