Microsoft's Frank Shaw rips into Apple and the press for daring to compare iWork to Office

As is tradition, Apple threw a bit of smack talk Microsoft's way during its big iPad presentation yesterday. While CEO Tim Cook didn't specifically call out Microsoft, he said Apple's competition was "confused." "Now they're trying to make PCs into tablets and tablets into PCs," Cook said in an obvious shot at Microsoft's Surface lineup. "Who knows what they'll do next?" That wasn't the only dig — Apple positioned its now-free iWork suite as a feature-rich alternative to Microsoft's Office, and Redmond noticed.

Today, Microsoft called Apple out and then some in a blog post by VP of communications Frank Shaw. After fawning over Nokia's new Lumia 1520 ("I'm really excited for a 1080p Lumia with a third column on my start screen"),...

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