“Trip Chowdhry, an analyst with tiny Global Equities Research, contends that 7 minutes of the June 7 keynote by Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been blocked off for a presentation by Microsoft to talk about Visual Studio 2010, the company’s suite of development tools,” Eric Savitz reports for Barron’s.

“Chowdhry says the new version of VS will allow developers to write native applications for the iPhone, iPad and Mac OS,” Savitz reports. “And here’s the kicker: he thinks Microsoft’s presentation could be given by none other than Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.”

Full article here.

MacDailyNews Take: Yet another brilliant move by Jobs: Make Ballmer look as competent as possible (we know, difficult task, to say the least) in order to assuage MSFT shareholders and keep Monkey Boy “running” the Microsoft circus for as long as possible, all while dropping another bomb Adobe.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "jax44" for the heads up.]