My how times have changed. The web is full of talk surrounding early evidence that Microsoft is cozying up to Apple, and vice versa,  and some of the evidence if (for once) quite obvious-

• Brad Smith (Microsoft) stated of Apples lawsuits against HTC “the fact that there’s litigation in this area is not necessarily a bad thing.” which is a real surprise considering HTC is the big player in Windows Mobile and Windows Phone 7.

• Rumours continue that Apple will use Bing as the default search engine for the iPhone, iPad and of course the iPod Touch.

• In the aforementioned lawsuit, Apple quotes HTC and Android, but not one mention of Microsoft or Windows Mobile despite the fact that some of the phones mentioned wun Windows Mobile. The ones that one Android have a mention of the operating system in them.

It is of course all speculation, but it does seem a little odd. Are we to see some sort of mini alliance in the future? I can’t honestly how either needs the other, but I may be wrong.