Microsoft pushing for designer PCs?

"Now that Macs are PCs -- we mean really real PCs that run Windows n' stuff -- the beige box world is having a harder time than ever keeping peoples' interest when their inner John Hodgman longs to walk on the wild side and snap up a Macintel. Re-enter Microsoft: the company's latest kick is, of course, vertical integration (see: Zune), so it should come as no surprise that Redmond's supposedly been issuing a strict aesthetic best-practices kit, called the Windows Vista Industrial Design Toolkit..."

Continued on at Engadget.

Wow, Microsoft seems to have a lot of surprises up its sleeve. First it was their announcement of their Zune MP3 Player which will compete with Apple's IPod, and now they have a strict aesthetic best-practices kit for Windows Vista just to make PCs look as good as Apple's Macs? Seems like Microsoft really wants to get onto Apple's turf. I must admit, if they can pull this off, we will be in for some beautiful computer cases in the future.

Hmm Windows Vista looks + cool looking PC cases. Seems like Microsoft may be able to compete with Apple's smooth and stylish Macs and Mac OS X.

Well good luck to Microsoft with this interesting endeavor.

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