Spoof wars

That is what is taking place between Apple and Microsoft right now. Source. At a recent conference, Steve Jobs, demonstrating a countdown clock "widget" for the Mac, Jobs typed in the word Longhorn and the date 12/31/2006 (a couple months after Longhorn is expected to be on the market).

On the other hand, Microsoft did a spoof report on Apple collaboratingwith Toyota to create an iPod/Prius hybrid called the "hy-pod". Interesting!

Apple is also planning to ship its next OS X operating system, to be known as Leopard, at the end of 2006 or in early 2007. This is really in contrast to Apple's earlier nomenclature policy of using the names of apple types.

A detailed post on Microsoft sometime later.