Ballmer Compliments iPhone: A Certain Deal in the Making?

In a move that has been termed by pundits in the tech world as the most bizarre, ace CEO of Microsoft Corp. And leading critic of Apple, Steve Ballmer praised Apple for the products that it has launched lately. He went onto to say something that came as a shocker to many that Apple was never that bad a company and has allowed people to monetize and commercialize the intellectual property owned by them. To many, it sounded Vanilla and came across as a Jolt out of the Blue. Many have written this off as a strategic decision saying that this is Microsoft’s effort to compel Apple in allying with it and putting Bing on the phone, once Apple decides to shove the deal of using Google on its iPhone. The move has sent ripples across the industry and has left many guessing about the future prospects of Apple.