Check out the LiveMesh (a Microsoft service) site.

Guess who’s logo prominently features in the homepage?

Apple.

Yes, Apple!

And an Apple Mac, at that. Can’t see it clearly in the screenshot below?

Go ahead, check out the Live Mesh site.

I see this as another example of Microsoft’s new ‘approach’ that we spoke about earlier. Of course, they’re doing it to highlight the cross platform sync capabilities of their application – but a few years ago, you’d have expected Microsoft to pretend that a Mac didn’t even merit ‘consideration’ for their sync application.

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