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Bloody typical. As if we haven’t got enough to worry about with terrorism, aids, bird-flu, global warming, meteors, turbulent money markets, the rising price of oil, and a looming recession. Now Fortune is reporting that Microsoft may be eyeing the iPhone as a potential outlet for their software, including Office applications and voice control for Apple’s iPhone.

For a little more than a week, a team of the company’s Silicon Valley software engineers has been examining the iPhone software development kit (SDK for short), a set of tools Apple (AAPL) released this month that let outsiders build software for the iPhone and the iPod touch. Microsoft (MSFT) executives aren’t sure yet whether they’ll find worthwhile opportunities to sell iPhone software – but they seem eager to find out.

“It’s really important for us to understand what we can bring to the iPhone,” Tom Gibbons, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Specialized Devices and Applications Group, told Fortune on Monday. “To the extent that Mac Office customers have functionality that they need in that environment, we’re actually in the process of trying to understand that now.”

I know Microsoft has had a large development team dedicated to Mac for some time, but give us a break.  The guys at Redmond are stalking us. Everywhere we turn, Office is there, watching, waiting. I can’t bring myself to take a shower without hiding the kitchen knives away first. Is Steve Ballmer really Norman Bates in disguise? Coming mother.

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