A reminder that Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs and Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates will make a rare joint appearance at The Wall Street Journal’s “D: All Things Digital” conference tomorrow. The two men 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 executives have made multiple individual appearances at the conference, which will celebrate its fifth anniversary this year, and is known as “D5”. But this will be their first joint session at “D,” and a highly unusual event.
In addition to participating in the joint session with Mr. Gates, Mr. Jobs will appear on his own in a separate segment at “D5” to discuss the latest developments at Apple, including new ventures such as the iPhone and Apple TV.
The D5 conference will also feature 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.
Like past editions of the conference, D5 will be an all-interview event, without canned speeches. The conference, which is sold out, is taking place May 29-31 near San Diego, California. For more information, see http://d.wsj.com/
To see past D videos, users can go to http://www.allthingsd.com
D5 is sponsored by Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, Houlihan Lokey, IDA Ireland, Kodak, NYSE Group, and Qualcomm.
Microsoft introduces the Multi-Touch table:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4217348.html
This from a company who can’t get an operating system right after 5 years of work.
Will Linus Torvalds be joining the party?
MDN,
but at what time???
Will my wine glass work as a stylus?
My daughter enjoys crayons and markers — are there table surface accessories?
Does the value of the table drop every two years?
Will resale shops even accept the table, or update the OS?
Will walmart put out a knock-down version, a Lable?
So about a year ago i saw this video of a Apple patented multitouch screen. Today I saw a video of a microsoft multitouch screen alot like that one.
Announcement of them working together on that maybe? I bet so.
Bill pulls out a Zune for a bit of free advertising…
Steve pulls out the iPhone…”You call THAT an MP3 player??”.
Give up Bill, its a lost cause. ALL of it.
I don’t see many restaurants spending however many thousands of dollars on each table just so they can take credit cards – which they can already do.
Chris,
What is Steve measuring in the second photo? Bill seems prettttttyyyyy excited about it.
@Putty in your hands
Yeah right. 110 vulnerabilities. I care for almost 100 Macs. Never had an OSX compromise even on totallly unprotected systems.
Spout your crap elsewhere trolls, like Bill does in interviews to the uninformed sheep of the Winduz masses.
@Shiva
Thanks for the laugh, that got my morning going right.
Kick Bill Gate’s ass, Steve! LOL
To Luke….,
“CounterPoint – Bill Gates then reaches behind his chair and dumps a box of devices running Windows mobile. “We got a few hundred milllion of these already in circulation, what you got?”
Yep, at 50 cents for the bad software thats in each, thats what you get. Steve says, lets see, 100 million iPods and counting at 50 percent profit ($75 – $150 each vs 50 cents). Yep, Steve wins in a walk.LOL
PS, saw the surface web site. Nice site but all I kept hearing is “SELL ads, sell product, sell, sell, sell”. Bill has this thing about it all about taking the consumers money, nothing else. I just do not see it becoming the solution that — people want.
Why do I get the feeling that by the end of the year, Apple could sell you Mac OS X 10.5, a multi-touch screen, and you would be up and running at home with multi touch. Where Microsoft will have 5-6 of these things running in some swanky hotel that I could never afford to go in. If 10.5 is happy running multi-touch (see iPhone
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This next year is going to be interesting.
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MDN word “total” as in Apple = total cool, Microsoft = Zune.
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I hope they will show the meeting live. It would be great to have them work together and get rid of all this Mac-PC trash talk. I wish Mac would just sell itself for what Mac can do rather than selling itself by pointing out what a PC cannot.
The reality is Microsoft has the business sector and all the money and Mac has the schools and designers. I wish we could move forward with one operating system that did it all.
There is not one management application in my industry that can run on a Mac and the closest Mac store is an hour drive. So we have all PC’s in business while the schools teach on Mac’s. Our High Schools have finally moved to PC’s to save money and put kids on what they will be using in their regular jobs. It is time for one merged operating system!