Steve Ballmer not speaking at Apple Dev Conf. Nor appearing on Dancing with the Stars. Nor riding in the Belmont. Just FYI.
Source: The Official Twitter of Microsoft Corporate Communications
MacDailyNews Take: They can’t even name Twitter accounts succinctly. Meanwhile, Trip Chowdhry, if there’s no Microsoft presentation at WWDC (even w/o Monkey Boy), you’ve got some ‘splainin’ to do!
As per MDN reader Mark Armstrong below, if Chowdhry got his “info” from this April Fool’s Joke article, he should change his name to Chowderhead.
[UPDATE: 5:45pm EDT: Chowdhry Says He Was Wrong; No Ballmer At WWDC]
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “The Mac FAQs” for the heads up.]
The rumor was fun while it lasted. And I thought the tweet was rather funny.
I guess now that Microsoft is irrelevant, I don’t hate them anymore.
knew it
I was actually looking forward to see monkeyboy show up.
This is NOT a surprise.
And I SO had my hopes up….
Ah…no monkey boy dance at WWDC.
Bummer.
He’s not coming to tell us about the new Bing! app for the iPad?
Told ya Chowdhry was a blithering idiot.
Woulda been pretty damn funny tho
Would have made a great mash-up
He can appear on the screen only if a babe throws a hammer through the screen during his presentation.
As long as Microsoft is #3 on that list, they’re unfortunately still relevant in the public eye. But we all know which direction they’re going. All in good time, my friends. All in good time.
Not that surprised. It was merely an entertainment point at best.
That rumor is what’s wrong with internet journalism in a nutshell.
We’re all getting more stupid:
http://themacadvocate.com/2010/05/27/dear-google-thanks-for-the-absurdity/
it was just plain obvious
I simply can’t imagine Jobs allowing Ballmer to share the stage with him. A flunky, perhaps (e.g. Roz Ho), but not Ballmer himself. Jobs and Ballmer are complete opposites of each other, in personality, sense of taste, communication style, and appearance. I managed to stomach Bill Gates sitting next to Jobs on-stage, but Ballmer would be too much.
do monkeys really like bananas? perhaps ballmer likes bananas?
Uh, sorry about that one, guys. My contacts at DigiTimes were wrong. Again.
But I do have something really good to share: follow @BPGlobalPR on Twitter. You can trust everything they say. (Actually, it’s all fake, but hilarious!)
http://www.twitter.com/BPGlobalPR
What I was looking forward to was Jobs and Ballmer coming out in tuxedos and doing “Puttin’ On the Ritz.”
Or at least Jobs leading Ballmer around with a chain leash like a dancing bear.
If it isn’t for Microsoft and Steve Ballmer, could the 7-minute time slot be for Verizon’s Lowell McAdam or Denny Strigi?
Just wondering.
I heard that he will be Lance’s team-mate in the Tour de France this year.
I did not think that the Dancing Monkey from Microsoft would be there. I watched the video and I do not think that he can dance for 7 minutes straight. 1 or 2 minutes tops!
Microsoft is anything but succinct. One time in a conversation with the Microsoft Partner Program, a lady was helping me wade through Microsoft blather on their partner web site to figure out what it meant. I said, “I guess the motto at Microsoft is ‘never use one word when twenty will do.”
The woman whispered, “I think you’re right!”
Trip Chowdhry is a fake name. Google him, there is really nothing there to give him any credit at all
RUMOR
Al Davis to speak at Denver Broncos training camp.
Was this the source of the rumor?
http://www.sdtimes.com/content/article.aspx?ArticleID=34234