Apple Flatters Microsoft With Imitation - Businessweek

Perhaps not entirely good news for Microsoft, if this is an accentuate-the-positive snapshot

"If Apple, the tech world’s de facto purveyor of good taste, has moved closer to Microsoft’s design, then it follows that Microsoft must be doing something right. Microsoft needs this kind of affirmation as it continues its seemingly quixotic bid to become a serious player in the mobile market. And recent market data suggest that, like the talking guy in the Monty Python plague cart, Windows Phone is “not dead yet.”"

Apple Flatters Microsoft With Imitation - Businessweek