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Microsoft Lifts Stakes With Apple Over Apps

Microsoft plans to up the ante with rival Apple when it emulates the app store concept in personal computers, starting with the next version of the Windows operating system.

Wall Street Journal
Dec 6, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft Corp. plans to up the ante with rival Apple Inc. when it emulates the app store concept in personal computers, starting with the next version of the Windows operating system.

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