Bill Gates: Windows Patched Faster than Linux

petard writes "In a very interesting interview published by the Register, Bill Gates made several interesting claims about Longhorn. Many of them have been extensively covered recently, including plans to force users to patch automatically. Surprisingly, everyone seems to have overlooked his statement that Microsoft fixes bugs faster than Linux developers do. 'We've gone from little over 40 hours on average to 24 hours. With Linux, that would be a couple of weeks on average.' Either he's lying or woefully misinformed; their recent performance seems to be more on the order of 3+ months, or over 2000 hours."

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Someone RAM Bill

[BrynM]

"I can't think of desktop applications where you would need more than 4 gigabytes of physical memory"

- 2003 William H. Gates, III

"640K ought to be enough for anybody"

- 1981 William H. Gates, III

So every 20 years or so, we get a useless memory quote from Bill that will be irrelevant in the next couple of years. A new tradition.