Developers are abuzz over a Wall Street analyst;s claim that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer may perhaps make an look at the upcoming Apple Planet Extensive Developers Conference in early June. The speculation centers about talk that Ballmer himself may introduce some type of add-on for Visual Studio 2010 to support improvement of iPhone apps making use of Microsoft;s device suite.Though that;s doable — after all,
Microsoft Office 2010 X64, there;s an add-on for Visual Studio 2010 that supports Windows Phone 7 improvement – I;m thinking something else may perhaps be afoot. If Ballmer is going to make a cameo appearance at WWDC, I;m thinking if such an announcement happens,
Office Professional 2010 Serial Key, it;ll be Silverlight for the iPhone.Update: Microsoft (via Twitter) is denying Ballmer will be there, but maybe someone else from Microsoft will? No word on that….Back to Silverlight and the iPhone…Thanks to developer Mike Sax, president and founder of Sax Software,
Office Home And Student 2010, for his tweet that put this idea in my head.)Update: Two of my Twitter followers (@makram and @clubdirthill) noted that the announcement also could be the rumored Bing on iPhone/iPad exclusive. Good point. If it;s going to be Ballmer on stage,
Office 2010 Upgrade Key, it;s likely a bigger a tit-for-tat deal. (”I;ll trade you Bing on the iPhone if you give me Silverlight on the iPhone…)No one from Microsoft is talking about any kind of rumored Ballmer/WWDC announcements, but such a move isn;t outside the realm of possibility. Yes,
Office 2010 32bit, Microsoft and Apple are rivals within the phone and PC space, but Microsoft sells Office for Mac (and has a new version of that product coming out this holiday season).More fodder: WWDC kicks off the same day/week that Microsoft;s TechEd developer/IT pro conference does. And Microsoft has been tight-lipped about which of its execs (other than Server and Tools President Bob Muglia) will be keynoting that event in New Orleans. I;d guess that means Ballmer is not going to be at TechEd — which means he could be in San Francisco (with a live webcast feed beamed to the TechEd masses from WWDC).A Silverlight for iPhone port has been hinted at by Microsoft for the past couple of years. And since Apple CEO Steve Jobs is continuing to ban Silverlight-rival Flash on the iPhone and iPad, Microsoft would love to get a leg up there. (And Apple would have some type of alternative those wanting to view rich-media content on its mobile devices.)But Silverlight isn;t solely about media playback via a plug-in that already works on Apple;s Safari (as well as Internet Explorer and Firefox). Silverlight also a advancement platform. Silverlight is one of the two main developer platforms (the other being XNA for games) that Microsoft is offering developers for Windows Phone 7.Would it really be so hard for Microsoft to extend assistance of Silverlight to iPhone developers? (I;m asking here because I don;t know and I;d love some input from Windows Phone developers on this one.)What do you think? Could the rumors be true? May possibly Microsoft be willing to sacrifice one of the few advantages it has during the smartphone space (great improvement tools) to get much more folks developing on Silverlight?