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?

Re:BUSH DESTROYED NEW ORLEANS!!!11

[Anonymous Coward]

WTF is globule warming?

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?"

Bill thinks the internet is new

[ninja_pirate]

Software in general, whether it was from Microsoft or somebody else, was not set up for an environment where all the computers were connected together. So it's not like there was some software that had this security capability and our software did not. As we use the Internet to connect everyone up, then the need to essentially have suspicion and only listen to certain other systems, and if flaws come up to have those updated very quickly, that became a new requirement.

Earth to Bill: the internet has been around for a while now, and vast portions of your user base have been using it for the last 7 years or more.

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.

Lies...

[Anonymous Coward]

What must be running through a slashdot editor's head when he posts an article like this? He is not only literally lying through his teeth, but misrepresenting another news site and a quote. Several times things like this have happened...it makes me wonder what the screening process to become a slashdot editor is. It's things like these that have made slashdot a laughable site to anyone who has come here consistently for more than a couple weeks.

Headline Should Be:

[Master of Transhuman]

Bill Gates Lies Out

OR

Bill Gates Lies Some More

OR just

Bill Gates Lies

Seriously, who gives a shit what this asshole has to say? NOTHING he has said in the past has been relevent to anything but marketing spin and self-promotion.

Hey, Bill, stuff your mouth up your ass. We don't want to hear 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.

If M$ were a person...

[Anonymous Coward]

Microsoft is getting more pathetic by the minute. How many more things can they steal from OS X?

How many lame apps can they make to try to kill other decent products.

Hello Metro
Hello Sparkle
Hello whatever the hell the Dreamweaver killer was.

They will spread themselves too thin and get the beating they deserve from all the competition i hope.

It's funny listening to all their marketing spew, they seem completely pathetic that they have to use words like "innovative" 10 times in a sentence.

They try to sound cool and hip...ooh they were giving out "The Goods" at their conference. LOL the corporate blandness just continues to seep through.

I think it you could compare M$ to a type of person the perfect example of what they would be is.....a wigger.

Goodbye Microsoft, Hello WiggerSoft!