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Ballmer Not appearing at WWDC - Microsoft
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- bep 16y agoThe whole "just repost some speculation from someone with more speculation" was totally insane.
- ajg1977 16y agoIt'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 16y agoWhat 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 16y agoMaybe 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 16y agowait 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 16y agoIt'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 16y agoyeah and the iPhone gets Windows Mobile 6.1 and the iPad Windows CE
- armandososa 16y agoAnd people will return them because they wanted XP
- johns 16y agoOr someone other than Ballmer (like Muglia) does show up.
- ireadzalot 16y agoIt's amazing how fast baseless information flies around!!
- Legion 16y agoEven more amazing how fast it gets voted up here. You'd think this crowd would know better. :(
- Autre 16y agoFor a minute there, I was actually scared.
- watty 16y agoHighest 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 16y agoPaul, I beg of you, pleeeease implement a "merge stories" feature, before it's too late...
- zephjc 16y agoSounds 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 16y 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 16y agoThey let a former politician on Dancing with the Stars, I would think Ballmer would have a better shot.
- ube 16y agoThere 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 16y agoIt seems Microsoft's tweet has taken Twitter down. It's been unavailable for the past half-hour!
- jot 16y agoI'm pretty sure he was going to speak. Steve Jobs cancelled because Microsoft failed to keep it a secret.