IDG Contributor Network: Apple, Microsoft and a radical new theory on the evolution of computing

[Disclosure: Microsoft is a client of the author.]

This week Microsoft announced that Apple’s iCloud app would be available in the Microsoft Store. At face value, this isn’t really a big announcement…more along the lines of “dog bites man.”

For some time now, Microsoft has defined itself by being open and focusing on interoperability. And while Apple hasn’t exactly embraced competing systems like they did when Steve Jobs ran the company (after all, the Apple watch is simply a wearable iPhone), putting their stuff on Windows PCs isn’t new, either.

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