Bill Gates Speaks Out

neoform writes "The Seattle PI is running an interesting interview with Bill Gates." In the article Gates comments on Vista, Google, and a few other pertinent topics. In an amusing bit of related news, an anonymous reader let us know that CNET is also running an interview with Gates. In the CNET interview Gates gives a very interesting response to one of the interview questions. "CNET: So that would be the philosophical difference between Microsoft and what Google is up to at this point? Gates: Well, we don't know everything they are up to, but we do know their slogan and we disagree with that."

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This offers nothing

[eneville]

TFA article offers no technology information, has slashdot beocme the borg gazette now?

Come on, why was not posted if not to troll?

Once and for all

[dcapel]

Proof that Billy is evil!

Favorite quote

[legLess]

Bill says:

In those areas where somebody else has done well, that's great. We'll match what they do, we'll bring new things to it, do it better and integrate it in with other things. And so it's very healthy for the consumer.

He continued, off the record:

Of course, once we reach total dominance in those areas, the consumer will really start taking it in the ass.

Don't Be Evil?

[Foofoobar]

So then... Bill's motto is something like:
"Rip off their heads, shit down their necks and then install XP up their butts?"

MS tries to make MORE money

[Mishra100]

Gates: Well, there's a ton of security capability that we are building in to Windows Vista. The whole thing about spyware, malware, phishing, a lot of things that support antivirus. The actual capability of getting updated signatures, that's something you need on an ongoing basis, so you need to ship that separately from the operating system itself and so we will have a way that people sign up from that separate from the operating system.

Oh look, Windows is not putting anti-virus/spyare protection into their operating system. Thats not too much of a suprise. MS can make more money selling their applications seperately. But the sad thing is that he tries to stray from the real reason once again. Oh you "NEED" to ship antivirus seperately because of constant updates... Wait a second, isn't Windows supposed to have constant updates in the first place? What a load of crap. Maybe you should start selling your updates at stores under this logic Bill. Blah.

Of COURSE they disagree with the slogan..

[HerculesMO]

Google's motto is Do no evil.

And since Microsoft only does evil, I can see why Bill Gates disagrees with it.

Microsoft's sole philosophy

[Colin Smith]

"Follow the market"

That's it. As a business philosophy it's brilliant, it's gotten them where they are today. As a product or innovation philosophy it turns out DOS, Windows, Office etc, a bunch of unbalanced, insecure, kludgy, unmanagable systems and applications.