Jobs and Gates to appear side-by-side at WSJ 'D' Conference
Apple chief executive Steve Jobs and Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates have committed to a rare joint appearance at the fifth anniversary of the The Wall Street Journal's "D: All Things Digital" conference later this year.
The two men, both seminal figures in the development of the personal computer, will jointly discuss the history and future of the digital revolution in an unrehearsed, unscripted, onstage conversation on May 30 with D co-producers Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher.
Both Jobs and Gates have made multiple individual appearances at the past D conferences, but this will be their first joint session at D, the Wall Street Journal announced on Tuesday.
In addition to participating in the joint session with Gates, Jobs will appear on his own in a separate segment at the conference, dubbed D5, to discuss the latest developments at Apple, including new ventures such as the iPhone and Apple TV.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will also appear at the conference in his own segment, to discuss Windows, Office, the Xbox, Zune, and other topics.
In addition, the D5 conference will feature an impressive roster of other leaders in technology and media. Confirmed speakers include Google CEO Eric Schmidt; CBS President Les Moonves; Cisco CEO John Chambers; film director George Lucas; online pioneer Steve Case; Time Inc. CEO Ann Moore; News Corp. President Peter Chernin; Palm founder Jeff Hawkins; and Steve Chen and Chad Hurley of YouTube.
Although Apple's Jobs was not amongst the guests at last year's D4 conference, he attended the two previous years and came bearing gifts. In 2004, he used the conference to unveil the AirPort Express Base Station. He also revealed that Apple had recently developed a modern-day PDA device that was scrapped just ahead of its introduction.
During D3 the following year, a witty Jobs previewed iTunes 4.9 while also dropping the first hints at an iTunes movie store and iPhone. It was during this year's conference that Jobs also vowed to take his fight against AppleInsider and the PowerPage to the United States Supreme Court. The case never made it; Apple conceded following a unanimous defeat in the California Court of Appeals and was later ordered to pay $700,000 in legal fees to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Like past editions of the conference, D5 will be an all-interview event, without canned speeches, The Journal said. The sold out conference will take place May 29-31 near San Diego, California.
If you plan on attending the conference, please drop us a line.
The two men, both seminal figures in the development of the personal computer, will jointly discuss the history and future of the digital revolution in an unrehearsed, unscripted, onstage conversation on May 30 with D co-producers Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher.
Both Jobs and Gates have made multiple individual appearances at the past D conferences, but this will be their first joint session at D, the Wall Street Journal announced on Tuesday.
In addition to participating in the joint session with Gates, Jobs will appear on his own in a separate segment at the conference, dubbed D5, to discuss the latest developments at Apple, including new ventures such as the iPhone and Apple TV.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will also appear at the conference in his own segment, to discuss Windows, Office, the Xbox, Zune, and other topics.
In addition, the D5 conference will feature an impressive roster of other leaders in technology and media. Confirmed speakers include Google CEO Eric Schmidt; CBS President Les Moonves; Cisco CEO John Chambers; film director George Lucas; online pioneer Steve Case; Time Inc. CEO Ann Moore; News Corp. President Peter Chernin; Palm founder Jeff Hawkins; and Steve Chen and Chad Hurley of YouTube.
Although Apple's Jobs was not amongst the guests at last year's D4 conference, he attended the two previous years and came bearing gifts. In 2004, he used the conference to unveil the AirPort Express Base Station. He also revealed that Apple had recently developed a modern-day PDA device that was scrapped just ahead of its introduction.
During D3 the following year, a witty Jobs previewed iTunes 4.9 while also dropping the first hints at an iTunes movie store and iPhone. It was during this year's conference that Jobs also vowed to take his fight against AppleInsider and the PowerPage to the United States Supreme Court. The case never made it; Apple conceded following a unanimous defeat in the California Court of Appeals and was later ordered to pay $700,000 in legal fees to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Like past editions of the conference, D5 will be an all-interview event, without canned speeches, The Journal said. The sold out conference will take place May 29-31 near San Diego, California.
If you plan on attending the conference, please drop us a line.
Comments
I don't see a big debate between Jobs and Gates - Jobs has pretty good manners in public, and will probably save his best barbs for his individual presentation. If they let people ask questions, they'll probably pepper Jobs for info, while ignoring Gates and sad old Vista.
Maybe he'll be able to control his temper a bit more this time, and not be completely delusional?
The interesting thing is this conference comes right at the same time that Leopard and the iPhone will be released - hopefully Leopard will already be out by then (spring doesn't end until June 21st).
I don't see a big debate between Jobs and Gates - Jobs has pretty good manners in public, and will probably save his best barbs for his individual presentation. If they let people ask questions, they'll probably pepper Jobs for info, while ignoring Gates and sad old Vista.
You are some type of crazy if you think Bill will ever be ignored.
Why not? Everything PC-centric at CES got completely upstaged by the iPhone and MacWorld last month:
Macworld vs CES: Macworld emerges as victor
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/arti...CWORLD-CES.xml
Bill's on his way out the door anyway, retiring from MS in favor of his Foundation work (which I actually admire).
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I think what elroth meant was that the audience will have many more questions for Jobs and not really that interested in what Bill has to say. I'm sure Walt Mossberg will give them equal time to be polite.
I wonder if Steve's reality distortion field will have any effect on Gates
It gets magnified by the coke bottle eye glasses.
I wonder how much that "modern-day PDA" that got scrapped resembles the iPhone.
I think what elroth meant was that the audience will have many more questions for Jobs and not really that interested in what Bill has to say. I'm sure Walt Mossberg will give them equal time to be polite.
You mean Gates has something to say?
What the same old rant that he has for years?
The buggy and quirky Vista?
What if anything the man has to say?
Love it
I hope Jobs destroys and utterly humiliates that 4-eyed bug once and for all.
How do you destroy someone when your market share along with your net worth isn't 10%of the person your attempting to destroy?
Take Gates net worth along with the fact that he has pounded Apple for the last 20 years and honestly if I was Jobs I would just be nice to the guy. When it comes tot he sucess of each business Apple isnt even really in the same league as MS.
Anyone can dispute what OS is better that subjective, bottom line math isnt.
LOL!
Isn't that kinda like your dorky Uncle Lester saying "phat" a lot, and jerking around to Greenday in front of your friends?