Bill Gates Brags About Vista, Reacts to Apple's Latest Ads

fr8_liner writes "In an unusually candid interview with Newsweek Bill Gates lays it all on the line, bragging about the benefits of Vista, ragging on Apple for their 'I'm a Mac' ads, and claiming primacy in a number of features shared by Vista and OSX. Specifically, it is Mr. Gates' opinion that the Apple adverts are misleading if not untruthful. He makes the claim that 'security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine.' The interview also touches on the future of Microsoft and Operating systems, and some of the company's plans for internet-based computing."

Comments

Re:Truth or Dare?

[alexhs]

I think Gates meant: I dare anybody to do that only once a month on the Windows machine. Almost. See how month is italicized in TFA. So he implicitly means that normal rate should be once a... week ? day ? hour ? :)

The interview has a lot of funny quotes...

I don't think the over 90 percent of the [population] who use Windows PCs think of themselves as dullards, or the kind of klutzes that somebody is trying to say they are. Of course, they're dinosaurs !

_Does the entire tenor of that campaign bother you, that Mac is the cool guy and PC--
_That's for my customers to decide. So please vote if you want Bill to be bothered or not about the entire tenor of that campaign.
Erm sorry. You're probably not a customer, you're an end-user...

If you're interested, [Vista development chief] Jim Allchin will be glad to educate you feature by feature what the truth is. /me thinking about rats and room 101...

So you feel in 2010-2011 Microsoft will be back with the next big one?
Absolutely. We'll tell you how Vista just wasn't good enough, and we'll know why, too. We need to wait and hear what consumers have to tell us. We don't know that, otherwise, of course, we would have done it this time. That explains all those features removed from V... erm... Longhorn ?

So can you give us an indication of what the next Windows will be like?
Well, it will be more user-centric.

What does that mean? Bill then goes on explaining .Mac and and other Tiger mobility features

we've done some dramatic things [to improve security] in the code base. Apple hasn't done any of those things. No comment.