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Microsoft's Steve Ballmer to Present During WWDC 2010 Keynote?
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This fits in with the news I read about the MacBU moving.
What I find interesting is the article says a developer could write programs for Mac OS.
What I find interesting is the article says a developer could write programs for Mac OS.
Well yes, by definition. But there is hardly any need for Objective-C without Cocoa... most things can be accomplished easily in plain C, and all the useful frameworks on other platforms tend to be in C++. Support for Obj-C beyond Apple is pretty abysmal, and there's no way that Microsoft would be the first to embrace it.
Don't think so, didn't they just band 3rd-party dev tools?. plus, xCode is huge sell point for the Mac
Ok, when Steve Jobs said it the first time I didn't believe him, but if he were to say hell has frozen over this time around, lol well now its plausible.
All I know is this is HUGE! It will further cement Apple and put a dent on Google and Adobe Flash. Looks like M$ and Apple are teaming up to tag team Google and Adobe!
I wondering if this is foreshadowing an Apple merger or buy out of Microsoft. BIG BOLD MOVES!
All I know is this is HUGE! It will further cement Apple and put a dent on Google and Adobe Flash. Looks like M$ and Apple are teaming up to tag team Google and Adobe!
I wondering if this is foreshadowing an Apple merger or buy out of Microsoft. BIG BOLD MOVES!
Will they play this Jobs segment when Ballmer's on stage?
"The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their products."
"The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their products."
It's not so far-fetched.
Remember, Microsoft initially released their Seadragon app on the iPhone platform first.
How much does Microsoft charge for Visual Studio? If they add iPhone app code compatibility to VS, do you think they'll have more customers or less?
Do you think they're trying to hedge their bets hoping that VS developers pounding out iPhone App code might eventually port their code over to the next generation Windows Mobile IDE?
Maybe Microsoft thinks it's better to keep people on Visual Studio, rather than see them waltz off to Xcode?
But Steve Jobs said no cross platform app creation.... He made such a big deal about with with Adobe... Why would he let M$ do it? Makes no sense.
not true... I can generate native obj-c code from a number of UML tools which have little to do with Apple. This code, when integrated with the iphone/ipad sdk, compiles and runs well.
Yeah, Right...
This makes no sense. This shouldn't have even made it to 'Page 2'.
Is this April 1st? I really thought it was May....
This makes no sense. This shouldn't have even made it to 'Page 2'.
Is this April 1st? I really thought it was May....
Oh My God.......
I have one answer as to why Steve Ballmer is speaking at WWDC 2010......Google. Steve Ballmer's hatred for Google is legendary and given the fall out between Apple and Google this makes perfect sense. Let's see 7 minutes I don't think Steve can can get worked up too bad in that amount of time but some of the tirades he has had at M$ meetings in a sight to behold, dripping with sweat, sweat soaked shirt, red faced, almost screaming....at Google.
I have one answer as to why Steve Ballmer is speaking at WWDC 2010......Google. Steve Ballmer's hatred for Google is legendary and given the fall out between Apple and Google this makes perfect sense. Let's see 7 minutes I don't think Steve can can get worked up too bad in that amount of time but some of the tirades he has had at M$ meetings in a sight to behold, dripping with sweat, sweat soaked shirt, red faced, almost screaming....at Google.
That's what SDK 5 will be for.
Need a loophole? As long as your name isn't Adobe there's an app for that.
Aw c'mon - "one analyst is predicting"...
Visual Studio 2010 was just released a month ago with a focus on the .NET 4.0 framework and SharePoint development.
MS is trying to get a big push on development for the new Windows Phone Series 7 coming later this year. With the lack of developers on that already I can't see them having this tasty distraction within their development app.
Calling BS on this prediction - it doesn't make sense on so many angles.
On top of that Microsoft's big TechED event (their version of WWDC) is June 7-11th... Check out their detailed topic list: http://northamerica.msteched.com/topic/list
Also note that I think this misinformation happened because Microsoft's TechED is June 7th and so is WWDC. So if someone heard that Steve Ballmer was talking up Visual Studio 2010 on June 7th it'd TechED - not WWDC. Maybe the reporter didn't know about TechED and assumed June 7 = WWDC...
Visual Studio 2010 was just released a month ago with a focus on the .NET 4.0 framework and SharePoint development.
MS is trying to get a big push on development for the new Windows Phone Series 7 coming later this year. With the lack of developers on that already I can't see them having this tasty distraction within their development app.
Calling BS on this prediction - it doesn't make sense on so many angles.
On top of that Microsoft's big TechED event (their version of WWDC) is June 7-11th... Check out their detailed topic list: http://northamerica.msteched.com/topic/list
Also note that I think this misinformation happened because Microsoft's TechED is June 7th and so is WWDC. So if someone heard that Steve Ballmer was talking up Visual Studio 2010 on June 7th it'd TechED - not WWDC. Maybe the reporter didn't know about TechED and assumed June 7 = WWDC...
While I doubt this rumour, it would be exciting news for some corporate developers who prefer Visual Studio.
If this rumour had any possibility of being true, it would mean that Apple had ported the libraries and build toolchain for the iPhone/iPad to windows and integrated it as a plugin for Visual Studio. So this would be iPhone SDK ported to windows.
The Adobe thing was different while this would have to be creating native apps using a ported set of libraries for writing Objective-C code and building it into executables for the iPhone OS.
I would pay to see Steve Ballmer bow down and kiss Steve Jobs' feet.
Ballmer should also do his monkey dance and say "I am not worthy!"
=)
Ballmer should also do his monkey dance and say "I am not worthy!"
=)