“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.]
Go for it, Ballmer. Kneel before Zod!
Don’t worry, it’ll be six minutes of him running up and down sweating and shouting “developers, developers, developers” over and over again, then just a minute of him throwing chairs around when he realizes no-one joined in…
I hope not. If M$ must be onstage then send a software engineer who knows the code vs the big stooge.
When pigs fly. iCal me on that.
Be Gracious.
Anything can happen … I heard that Apple was going to invest $150 Million into Microsoft to keep the stockholders calm.
There is NO WAY that Ballmer will give this presentation. iCal me on it. No way. That Micro$oft might present- that’s possible. But Ballmer? No way. Just ain’t gonna happen…
Maybe Ballmer will announce that he is dissolving MS and giving the money back to the shareholders.
Whether Ballmer graces the stage or not (or sweats all over it), no matter how you look at it, Visual Studio support for Mac OS is good for Apple and good for MS. Apple recognizes that this could be a significant step in making inroads in the enterprise market, and MS sees $$$.
But I won’t believe a word of this until it happens.
Like it or not, though, MS is looking for alternatives, and if that means more support for Apple to stem the threat of Google, they’ll do anything. I’d still be concerned to see Apple get in bed with MS.
10:03 am – Steve Jobs says “Next, I will introduce Steve Ballmer come on stage…”
10:03 am – Steve Ballmer says “Deverloper, Deverloper, Deverloper, Deverloper, Deverloper, Deverloper, Deverloper, Deverloper, Deverloper, Deverloper, Deverloper, Deverloper, Deverloper, Deverloper, Deverloper, Deverloper……… …Dev”
10:10 am – Steve Jobs “err.. Thank you Steve….”
Apple’s greatest enemy is Adobe and Google…
Microsoft is grateful that Apple is on their side for once
@Winston
Isn’t that ‘Kneel before iZod’?
Erm… maybe not.
who’s your daddy now, bitch.
Is he going to give this demonstration behind bullet-proof glass?
That’s going to be a long 7 minute Monkey Boy dance. But it might be a very wise strategic move by SJ, just as MDN says.
Hold on you lot.
I think it’s VS it is unlikely VS will be ported to Mac.
It’s more likely Apple have made .Net framework to create mac/iphone/ipod applications using VS on a Windowz 7 PeeCee.
The VS .Net env really is a very good tool to dev software. It’s just the MS documentation that goes with it thats crap.
I hate bing. I may not like google as a company but it’s the only search engine I use. Yahoo is so overcrowded with junk on thier webpage and bing is just odd and gives different answers
Has no one read their history? Has no one watched “Pirates of Silicon Valley”?
Maybe Microsoft is returning to Gates’ original vision: as a developer for the Apple platform!
Visual Studio is a nice tool. Many many years ago there was a Mac version if I’m not mistaken. No way would Apple let .NET runtime onto their platform which means it would have to produce native code for iPhone/iPad. Id say it’s awesome, would mean more and more c#/c++ developers producing apple software and allow MS to focus on the few products that they have that are actually decent (e.g. VStudio, SQL Server) once windose and office are rightfully, in a few more years, where they belong i.e. down the the toilet.
Zaniest. Rumor. EVER.
However, the idea of Visual Studio for the Mac would rock! But MS would never do that.
actually I think there was a version that targetted Mac, not an actual mac version. I think it was VC++ 4? does anyone remember? geez I’m getting old 🙁
Maybe this would be a good opportunity for SJ to drop an absolute bomb of a software/hardware announcement on M$ with Ballmer sitting on stage.
Say what?!?
Could be like jimSydAus stated – a new front in the war with Google. Perhaps the iPhone is going to get Bing as the default search engine?
Strange times indeed.
Peace.
Maybe they`ll lead him onstage leashed like a trained bear wearing a fez, Jonathan Ives, Steve Jobs and Tim Cook and take turns throwing him kibble to do tricks.