Apple has been boosting sales of Macs with its Mac OS X operating system — seemingly at Microsoft’s expense, as more PC users turn up their noses at Microsoft’s Windows Vista. Apple additionally has had great success with its iPhone, but now that Apple is taking flak considering of problems with its MobileMe service, an admiring Microsoft appears ready to go after some of Apple’s revenue.

In a memo distributed to Microsoft employees Wednesday, CEO Steve Balmer said Apple

is good at “providing an experience that is narrow but complete, while our commitment to choice often comes with some compromises to the end-to-end experience.” As a aftermath, he wrote, Microsoft will work with hardware vendors to assemble certain there are “absolutely no compromises.”

Amid reports that Microsoft is planning a rival to the iPhone, Ballmer wrote that he wants Microsoft to emulate Apple by controlling all aspects of a product’s […]

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