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Fortune have an interview with Tom Gibbons, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Specialized Devices and Applications Group. In it he reveals that the boys from Redmond have been having a play with the iPhone SDK for about a week and may look to bring some apps to market for Apple’s device.

“We do have experience with that environment, and that gives us confidence to be able to do something,” Gibbons said. “The key question is, what is the value that we need to bring? We’re still getting comfortable with the SDK, right? It’s just come out. So we had a guess as to what feasibility would be like, now we’ll really get our head wrapped around that.”

This may come as a surprise to some, with MS being commonly regarded as the anti-Apple, but it does actually make sense. MS make millions per year from the Mac version of Office, and they aren’t daft enough to miss a potential source of relatively easy money.

With the new firmware expected to be here at the end of June, MS have till then to get something ready.