How Mountain Lion stacks up against Windows 8

With the Windows 8 Consumer Preview right around the corner, Apple decided to one-up Microsoft and release a beta of their own OS X Lion out of nowhere today. How's that for an unusual event in February? The folks over at Microsoft News have come up with a pretty cool comparison of the two upcoming OSes.

Although both of the OS' are headed towards more integration with the companies' respective mobile products, Apple has created a very interesting situation with Messages. Microsoft's Windows Live Messenger and Skype (both of which will probably end up being more integrated in the future) easily matches up in terms of features, Apple has made a one size fits all solution. On the Microsoft side of things, Windows 8 will feature a messaging hub similar to Windows Phones', sans the ability to communicate with other devices via a service like iMessage.

Microsoft News has the comparison HERE!