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

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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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