Sam OliverAs reported by Barron's, analyst Trip Chowdhry with Global Equities research said that a total of 7 minutes of Steve Jobs' June 7 keynote have been reserved for a presentation from Microsoft. The Redmond, Wash., software giant will reportedly be showing off Visual Studio 2010, the company's suite of development tools.
Chowdhry reportedly believes that the presentation could be given by Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO and fierce rival. If not, a possible second option for the allegedly planned presentation would be Bob Muglia, head of Microsoft's server and tools business.
According to Chowdhry, the new version of Visual Studio will allow developers to write native applications for Apple's iPhone OS, which includes the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Developers will also allegedly be able to write software for the Mac OS X operating system with Visual Studio 2010.
An appearance by Ballmer would certainly be a surprise at WWDC — an event that at least one analyst believes will be lacking in surprises due to a number of high-profile leaks that are believed to have shown off the hardware of Apple's next-generation iPhone.
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Maybe Apple is buying some M$ stock to help them and he is showing up to say thanks
Maybe Apple is buying some M$ stock to help them and he is showing up to say thanks
MSFT stock is remotely worth it only if I can reasonably speculate that they are going to split it up (i.e., take out the Windows and Office segments and spin them off as separate utilities.... er..... companies!).
Maybe Apple is buying some M$ stock to help them and he is showing up to say thanks
Now AAPL is valued higher than MS you have to write
"Maybe App£e is buying some MS stock to help them..."
O M G we're not going to see APPLESOFT!
What are they doing?
Maybe they're going to 'do' over Google together?
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Out with Google search. In with Bing?