Ballmer Not appearing at WWDC - Microsoft

http://twitter.com/Microsoft/status/14850981422

by mootymoots • 16 years ago

100 22 16 years ago

bep• 16 years ago

The whole "just repost some speculation from someone with more speculation" was totally insane.

ajg1977• 16 years ago

It's pretty much standard operating procedure for many sites that cover Apple news. Some of them even repost with a "we think this is bullshit, but we'll run it anyway" angle to try and cover themselves. When then thin shred of possibility the original rumor was based on vanishes, they more often than not then write posts about why it was clearly not in Apple's interests for said news to happen. Rinse and repeat.

9 to 5 Mac are the worst at this behavior, but to be honest I'm embarrassed for them all.

nopal• 16 years ago

What a great way to deliver this news! I would have thought that they'd want to let the expectations build more, but if they're going to announce, they couldn't have chosen a more direct, humorous way of doing it.

vessenes• 16 years ago

Maybe my all-time favorite tweet; I bet the MS PR folks are having a good laugh today as well.

Is nobody else wondering at how news stories can dissect, at great length whether code-creation companies still have a business with the iPad but also Apple will suddenly allow MS to use its dev tools on their platform? Confusing.

wdewind• 16 years ago

wait so you mean apple ISN'T going to let ballmer present and go against everything they've done in the last 2 months by allowing their top competitor to exactly what they've just taken a ton of shit from the dev community by not allowing? how shocking...

thought_alarm• 16 years ago

It's just a decoy!

That way, when Ballmer does show up and announce that Apple is ditching OS X, Cocoa, and XCode for Windows 7, .NET, and Visual Studio, you'll all be really surprised.

zyb09• 16 years ago

yeah and the iPhone gets Windows Mobile 6.1 and the iPad Windows CE

armandososa• 16 years ago

And people will return them because they wanted XP

johns• 16 years ago

Or someone other than Ballmer (like Muglia) does show up.

ireadzalot• 16 years ago

It's amazing how fast baseless information flies around!!

Legion• 16 years ago

Even more amazing how fast it gets voted up here. You'd think this crowd would know better. :(

Autre• 16 years ago

For a minute there, I was actually scared.

watty• 16 years ago

Highest rated comment on other post:

"Even if the rumour is false (I don't know) I don't find it unbelievable at all, because (a) it makes sense (b) this move would be both typically "Apple" and typically "Microsoft", if you look at the history of these companies. Hell, Microsoft started as a programming tool company."

Hate to say, "I told you so..."

raganwald• 16 years ago

Paul, I beg of you, pleeeease implement a "merge stories" feature, before it's too late...

zephjc• 16 years ago

Sounds like extra complexity - maybe just have a textarea field when submitting/modifying a story to reference other stories (a list of links, one per line, which the HN engine translates into each link's title as a clickable link)

pyre• 16 years ago

  > Steve Ballmer not speaking at Apple Dev Conf. Nor 
  > appearing on Dancing with the Stars. Nor riding
  > in the Belmont. Just FYI.

That's just what 'they' want you to think! Steve Ballmer is going to do his entire speech while demonstration the iPad's new text-to-voice feature! So he won't be speaking at all!

protomyth• 16 years ago

They let a former politician on Dancing with the Stars, I would think Ballmer would have a better shot.

ube• 16 years ago

There is one problem with Ballmer being on Dancing with the Stars - he would have to dance with a partner...I think that's part of the rules. As we all know, Ballmer can only dance by himself (and yell "Developers, Developers, Developers").

ComputerGuru• 16 years ago

It seems Microsoft's tweet has taken Twitter down. It's been unavailable for the past half-hour!

jot• 16 years ago

I'm pretty sure he was going to speak. Steve Jobs cancelled because Microsoft failed to keep it a secret.

JadeNB• 16 years ago

> I'm pretty sure he was going to speak.

Why?

blahpro• 16 years ago

http://twitter.com/jot/status/14898912505

Ballmer Not appearing at WWDC - Microsoft

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