Will Steve Ballmer Speak At WWDC Keynote?

truthsearch writes "An analyst reports that not only will CEO Steve Jobs return to Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference stage — he missed last year for medical reasons — but he will be joined there by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdrey said that Microsoft has been given seven minutes during Jobs' keynote to talk about Visual Studio 2010. Chowdrey said that a new version of the development tools software will support native applications for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac OS." Update: 05/27 19:17 GMT by T : As reader theappwhisperer points out, Microsoft has responded to this rumor via the company's Twitter feed with an unequivocal No.

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DoJ dodging

[TheKidWho]

Seems like they're trying to dodge the DoJ by adding "competition."

Regardless this is pretty nice, it means I can developed for my iPad/Phone/Pod on my core i7 desktop rather then my 4 year old iMac.

Rubbish

[DavidR1991]

It won't be MSVC. It'll be the new Office for Mac introduction.

Re:Rubbish

[Yvan256]

And maybe also official Windows 7 support via boot camp. Why else give him seven minutes?

Re:Rubbish

[dc29A]

Or Bing as default search engine for Safari ... The enemy of my enemy is my friend you know ...

Re:Rubbish

[$RANDOMLUSER]

Six for dancing and sweating, one for talking.

Bound to be a big win

[$RANDOMLUSER]

I feel certain that most Apple developers would rather stick needles in their eyes than use Visual Studio. For one thing, it's more visually appealing.

Re:Bound to be a big win

[Ares]

having used apple's developer tools after spending years using microsoft's, let me assure you that apple's ease of use advantage ends when you open up xcode. sure you get used to gui design in interface builder, but vs is still orders of magnitude easier. therefore, the only developers who would rather stick needles in their eyes than use microsoft tools are those who have never used microsoft tools to begin with.

this, of course, makes no commentary on the quality of code that ultimately results from the use of the respective tools, just the ease of use of the tools themselves.

Re:Bound to be a big win

[Monkeedude1212]

Basically what you said, I think its not so much about Apple Developers choosing Visual Studio, but Visual Studio developers being able to work on Apple Applications.

In this corner...

[Quiet_Desperation]

I'm guessing an eight round electrified cage match with Jobs and Ballmer in Mexican wrestling masks and refereed by Chuck Norris

It will be inconclusive for seven rounds until Jobs seriously injures Ballmer with a flying clothesline after Ballmer cheats with a folding chair strike to Jobs' liver. Ballmer will tag in Bill Gates, but Jobs will tag in Phil Schiller. Schiller will then proceed to completely own Gates and win the match with a shining wizard followed by a dragon whip and atomic crotch punch.

The result will be Apple's market cap continuing to stomp on Microsoft's, and the kickoff of Phil's worldwide "Schillermania" tour.

Re:I can only imagine what Ballmer will say.

[HerculesMO]

Well Yahoo, AOL, and Pets.com also had high market valuations at one point too.

Look how that turned out.

All it says is that Apple owns all of its own manufacturing and equipment and makes a LOT of expensive hardware. MS sells software, mostly.

This is the dumbest rumor I've heard in years

[paulschreiber]

There is no way Apple will let you develop for the iPhone OS using MS' developer toolchain. No way whatsoever. I'll bet Trip Chowdrey $500 right now this doesn't happen.

I didn't find Xcode in any way deficient

[melted]

And I had been using Microsoft tools for 15 years before looking at them. Sure, it's jarring at first, but you get used to it. Apple's APIs on the other hand, completely blow Microsoft Win32 out of the water. It's not even close.

Re:I didn't find Xcode in any way deficient

[Ares]

And I had been using Microsoft tools for 15 years before looking at them. Sure, it's jarring at first, but you get used to it.

definitely. and it doesn't take a terribly long time for it either. i was looking at it from the perspective that apple has traditionally concentrated on ease of use in its entire environment. having to manually set up outlets and actions in the code so that they can be referenced by ib seems counterintuitive to that history. with vs on the other hand, it "just happens". i.e., double click on a button in the ui view and you get its onclick event handler. if it doesn't exist, it gets created.

Apple's APIs on the other hand, completely blow Microsoft Win32 out of the water. It's not even close.

you ain't kidding on that. even compared to mfc, apple wins. how microsoft managed to promote mfc for years without registry and security attribute classes representing critical aspects of the underlying operating system is beyond me.

I can see it now...

[sophomoric]

I can see it now... Steve Jobs walks on stage after Ballmer finishes and says: That's great Ballmer, but unfortunately we're not going to be able to accept any apps created in Visual Studio, but thanks anyways.

People actually like Visual Studio?

[tylersoze]

One of the most surprising aspects coming out of this rumor (which is complete and utter BS BTW, I wish I could get a job where I could just spout crazy BS all day, as opposed to just doing it for fun on slashdot :) is learning that people actually *like* Visual Studio? Who knew? I mean XCode has its problems, but I can't wait to get home after a day of working with VS and open up XCode and have some fun do iPhone coding.

Developers, developers, developers...

[Minwee]

If Steve Ballmer is giving it, wouldn't that make it the WWDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDC keynote?

Re:huh?

[TheRaven64]

Anyway, I'm sure MS Office is still pretty big on Mac OS.

Not as big as OpenOffice.org. Fortunately, new Macs ship with 4GB of RAM or more...