Microsoft Will Open Retail Stores Near Apple Stores in the Fall On Monday I quoted Robert X. Cingely’s skeptical take in a NYTimes OpEd on the Microsoft/Bing Google/Chrome corporate competition: This is all heady stuff and good for lots of press, but in the end none of this is likely to make a real difference for either company or, indeed, for consumers. It’s just noise — a form of mutually assured destruction intended to keep each company in check. Today John Batelle voiced his...