Did Apple Help Microsoft Get Windows 7 Right?

In a post from CNET on CEO Barry Crist comments: Apple significantly helped Microsoft “get it right” with Windows 7. Our technical team has looked at the Windows 7 beta. This is a team that doesn’t throw out idle praise and certainly doesn’t pull any punches when reviewing Microsoft technology. To say that the early returns from our team on Windows 7 are positive would be an understatement. Microsoft appears to have delivered. And the timing for Microsoft could not be better.

That was funny, Apple learned a lot from Microsoft which includes opening up to Intel, building partnership ecosystem, selling at Walmart, and being less introvert on its technologies.

Microsoft simply helped Apple get things right.