Microsoft says Steve Ballmer not speaking at Apple's WWDC
Microsoft revealed via its official Twitter account on Thursday that the company's chief executive, Steve Ballmer, will not be speaking at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference on June 7.
Microsoft made the announcement Thursday afternoon. It came in response to a claim from analyst Trip Chowdhry with Global Equities Research, who said this week that Microsoft has been allotted 7 minutes during Apple's June 7 keynote address.
"Steve Ballmer not speaking at Apple Dev Conf.," the post on Twitter reads. "Nor appearing on Dancing with the Stars. Nor riding in the Belmont. Just FYI."
The Twitter post does not address the other part of Chowdhry's claim: that Microsoft's Visual Studio 2010 will allow developers to write applications for Apple's iPhone OS -- including the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad -- as well as software for the Mac OS X operating system.
But that part of the rumor also seems highly unlikely, given that Apple specifically banned the use of intermediary tools to write software for the iPhone OS. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs also published a letter in which he said allowing a third-party layer of software results in sub-standard applications and hinders the platform.
"If developers grow dependent on third party development libraries and tools, they can only take advantage of platform enhancements if and when the third party chooses to adopt the new features," Jobs wrote. "We cannot be at the mercy of a third party deciding if and when they will make our enhancements available to our developers."
Microsoft made the announcement Thursday afternoon. It came in response to a claim from analyst Trip Chowdhry with Global Equities Research, who said this week that Microsoft has been allotted 7 minutes during Apple's June 7 keynote address.
"Steve Ballmer not speaking at Apple Dev Conf.," the post on Twitter reads. "Nor appearing on Dancing with the Stars. Nor riding in the Belmont. Just FYI."
The Twitter post does not address the other part of Chowdhry's claim: that Microsoft's Visual Studio 2010 will allow developers to write applications for Apple's iPhone OS -- including the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad -- as well as software for the Mac OS X operating system.
But that part of the rumor also seems highly unlikely, given that Apple specifically banned the use of intermediary tools to write software for the iPhone OS. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs also published a letter in which he said allowing a third-party layer of software results in sub-standard applications and hinders the platform.
"If developers grow dependent on third party development libraries and tools, they can only take advantage of platform enhancements if and when the third party chooses to adopt the new features," Jobs wrote. "We cannot be at the mercy of a third party deciding if and when they will make our enhancements available to our developers."
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Dance monkey boy dance...
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"Nor appearing on Dancing with the Stars. Nor riding in the Belmont."
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Awww, Monkey Boy
THOSE would have been well worth the price of admission
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Ballmer giving a speech about Dev tools for the Mac? And then add that its at Apple which has been causing the guy to gnash his teeth for the last 5+ years. Just nuts. That guy's got an ego and there's no reason for him to head down to Apple to publicly eat a slice of humble pie in front of Apple developers (great image though).
All that said, it would be interesting to see if they are offering a Mac option in Visual Studio (which seems kind of weird at this point - as in "why would they even do that?"). If memory serves, Microsoft did, a long time ago offer a dual compilation option (back in the pre OS X days), that didn't result in very Mac like applications (not a surprise) and was a failure in the market (nobody used it).
i really wanted monkey boy to do his thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So7qrFO_p44
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Microsoft's Steve Ballmer rumored to present at Apple's WWDC 2010
By Sam Oliver
Published: 07:40 AM EST
It was so earthshaking and rocked the AI community that when there was a "slight change", it warranted another article by yet another staff, instead of an update of the pripr report:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/05/27/microsoft_says_steve_ballmer_not_speaking_at_apples_wwdc.html" target="_blank">Microsoft says Steve Ballmer not speaking at Apple's WWDC
By Slash Lane
Published: 02:45 PM EST
With the new development, and not withstanding whatever was reported/speculated in the previous article, the second staff was now very confident to allay our concerns:
But that part of the rumor also seems highly unlikely, given that Apple specifically banned the use of intermediary tools to write software for the iPhone OS. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs also published a letter in which he said allowing a third-party layer of software results in sub-standard applications and hinders the platform.
Steve Jobs proclamation has been affirmed. All is great again in the Apple kingdom.
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