Jobs Vs. Gates: Prepare Your Battle Stations!

Next week at the Wall Street Journal D5 conference in San Diego, a very public conversation, which is being touted as nothing short of history making, is set to take place. Apple's Steve Jobs and Microsoft's Bill Gates will take to the stage for a 75-minute "joint interview" to talk tech.

The conference itself is aimed toward corporate executives hoping to learn a thing or two about technology and business from those who have had tremendous success with both.

This will be the first time Jobs and Gates will share the stage together (in person) since 1983. According to WSJ, the two will trade barbs over, "Issues such as whether it is wiser for a company to partner or build everything itself. Or the primacy of software versus hardware in personal computers. Or which is more important: how easy it is to use a product or what it can do once you figure out how?"

The two will then be laced up in boxing gloves to compete in a gladiatorial no-holds-barred, tooth-and nail fight to the death.

In the interest of full disclosure, it's very possible we've replaced certain facts in this article with things we'd like to see happen. But, we'll leave it to you to figure out which ones.

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