Amazingly enough, Paul Thurrott’s supersite for Windows, actually has a positive piece about Apple…

I’ve harped on this a lot in the past, but in a bid to maximize profits, Microsoft has littered the market with far too many Windows product versions, or what the company calls SKUs (for “stock keeping unit,” retailing term). And while we can try to dumb down the conversation by explaining how, in any given market, customers only have two or three or four choices, or whatever, the fact remains: One version is not just enough, it’s optimal from the customer point of view. Just ask Apple: It offers just one version of Mac OS X. It’s called Mac OS X. Not Mac OS X Media Center Edition or Mac OS X Arbitrarily Limited Edition. Just Mac OS X.

And more.  Overall, he points out quite a few places where Microsoft should power up those XEROX machines and start copying…  (Yes, I know, photocopier machines…  But dang it, Xerox-ing it gives me some satisfaction…  )

Read more here — What Microsoft Can Learn From Mac OS X Lion.