Per Barron's:

"Trip Chowdhry, an analyst with tiny Global Equities Research, contends that 7 minutes of the June 7 keynote by Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been blocked off for a presentation by Microsoft (MSFT) to talk about Visual Studio 2010, the company's suite of development tools. Chowdhry says the new version of VS will allow developers to write native applications for the iPhone, iPad and Mac OS. And here's the kicker: he thinks Microsoft's presentation could be given by none other than Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer."

Particularly given this week's news that Apple had for the first time -- becoming the world's most largest tech company in terms of share worth -- the info seemed especially juicy. Blog after blog ran with the story, and everywhere dropped their jaws in shock.

Well, I hate to burst the bubble, but here's what Microsoft had to say about the matter:

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