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Will Steve Ballmer Speak At WWDC Keynote?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stranger-things-have-happened dept.

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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  1. DoJ dodging by TheKidWho · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  2. Rubbish by DavidR1991 · · Score: 4, Insightful

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

    1. Re:Rubbish by dc29A · · Score: 4, Interesting

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

    2. Re:Rubbish by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 4, Funny

      Six for dancing and sweating, one for talking.

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  3. Re:Bound to be a big win by Ares · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  4. In this corner... by Quiet_Desperation · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  5. I didn't find Xcode in any way deficient by melted · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  6. I can see it now... by sophomoric · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  7. Re:huh? by TheRaven64 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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...

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