∞ Analyst: Steve Ballmer to make an appearance at WWDC keynote

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We were all wondering what surprises Steve Jobs would have for his WWDC keynote — how about Steve Ballmer on stage.

Trip Chowdhry, an analyst with Global Equities Research, says that Jobs will give Ballmer seven minutes of his keynote to speak to attendees, according to Barron’s. Ballmer will reportedly speak about Visual Studio 2010 and its ability to write native apps for the iPhone on Windows.

Ballmer could also talk about Silverlight and dozens of other topics, but it seems if Apple lets Microsoft make native apps for the iPhone and doesn’t let Adobe do the same thing, there is going to be trouble.


  • Alan

    Strange as this sounds it fits some other data: wwdc is totally focused on iPhone as oppossed to mac os where ms and apple compete more directly.

    MS is competing with google for search/ad revenue and here is a spot where they could plug in bing for search and the all-important mapping function that has caused problems between google and apple.

    And having MS office to compete with the forthcoming google apps for mobile would be a nice bonus.

    Apple has just retired the get a mac campaign as well.

    If there is no press release rubbing market cap in MS's nose then I think the appearance is a good bet.

    I don't know how far the two would go

  • http://www.techwatch.co.uk/ Techwatch

    That should be an interesting talk, the two biggies represented

  • http://www.greenworldinvestor.com Abhishek

    The war between Apple and Google across smartphones,tablets and software has led to a realignment of Technology alliances. They sure make strange bedfellows

  • http://shoemoneytonight.blogspot.com Obi-Wandreas

    “Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs. Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine, and only code written in C, C++, and Objective-C may compile and directly link against the Documented APIs (e.g., Applications that link to Documented APIs through an intermediary translation or compatibility layer or tool are prohibited).”

    Apple never stopped Adobe from creating a development program that obeys these rules.

    • Grapho

      I would even venture in thinking that Adobe might be moving in to this space. They already included some HTML5 features in to Dreamweaver.

  • Eric

    Sure, give Adobe grounds to sue, if there's anything about Silverlight involved.

    • Jack Brewster

      But if Silverlight can perform without tanking performance, why couldn't it be allowed? Not talking about iPhone apps, rather embedded web content so 3.3.1 wouldn't (shouldn't?) be applicable.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/WKevinG WKevinG

    This is a fascinating bit of speculation. Oh, the drama that is Silicon Valley.