Rumour Sends Microsoft CEO to Apple’s WWDC, Microsoft Denies.
Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp., may appear at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in early June to promote Microsoft’s technologies for Apple’s hardware and software platforms, an analyst said on Thursday. The software giant was quick to deny the information. But maybe there is no smoke without fire?
Trip Chowdhry, an analyst with tiny Global Equities Research, asserts that seven minutes of the June 7 keynote by Steve Jobs, chief executive officer of Apple, has been blocked off for a presentation by Microsoft. The analyst believes that the presenter will be Steve Ballmer himself, the CEO of the world’s largest software developer, reports Barron’s web-site.
The analyst believed that the head of Microsoft could talk about Visual Studio 2010 tool, which should allow development of applications for Apple’s iPhone, iPad or Mac OS; nonetheless, given the fact that Apple is now at war against Adobe and Google, Microsoft could also promote Bing search engine as well as Silverlight, a web application that integrates multimedia, graphics and interactivity.
