Bill Gates: Windows Patched Faster than Linux

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday October 16, 2003 @11:15AM from the arguing-over-who-sucks-less dept.

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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hahah by joeldg · 2003-10-16 11:17 · Score: 0, Redundant

this must be an early april fools or something.

btw: FP

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MS has a track record of lies and FUD by Trogre · 2003-10-16 11:28 · Score: 0, Redundant

Honestly, why does anyone still take these clown seriously?

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