Wired article: Apple Evil/Genius (and how Microsoft changed)
Interesting article in Wired this month by Leander Kahney called How Apple Got Everything Right By Doing Everything Wrong.
I keep telling people that the Microsoft that we have in 2008 is not the same Microsoft we had in the 80s-90s and I keep telling people that altought Apple puts out great and fantastic products, it is the new (old) Microsoft. The Wired article explains the whole thing a lot better than me.