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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."
> And then I might edit a high-definition movie
Bill, is that the MPAA on the phone?
the NPG electrode was replaced with carbon blac
'I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine.'
oh don't worry Mr Gates, we will.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
"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.'"
It's almost like virgins talking about sex, I'd question if he actually *uses* his own O/S.
No, see, you're just confused. Hackers don't find one exploit in Windows every week. They find 4 the day after Patch Tuesday, then take the rest of the month off.
This is rich coming from the founder of a corporation found guilty of anti-trust violations. I think he knows a thing or two about truthiness.
[Bill] Gates [responded to] questions in an [unusually] candid [interview]. For [some reason] most [of] his [words] were [interjected] by the editor. This [seemed] somewhat [odd and] excessive [to me]. Did [anyone else] notice [this]? [I] mean, a[n occasional] edit for [clarity] is pretty [normal], but it [seemed] like [every other] word was [inserted later].
Check out this part of TFA:
Is this a joke? It sure [is weird] to read an [article that] has so [many freaking] edits. I wonder [if Bill] was swearing [like a] sailor throughout [the] whole interview, and they [had to] clean [up] his potty mouth?
Considering the release date of Vista, I doubt that the stats you are talking about even have .0001 percent of the infected machines actually running Vista. Not that I work for BG's PR team, just a valid point.
On the other hand, Bill just might as well s#@* in both of his hands because he's going to wish he didn't say that.
640 kb to rule them all!!!!!!!!!!
Gray. Seattle thinks the rest of the world is insane for insisting that the sky is blue.
I thought he played with some code, made a mess out of it, bought someone else's code, then licensed yet another third party to replace his original attempt at coding?
The cesspool just got a check and balance.
Which also means physical access to the machine.
Hell, I can just yell "Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all" and hose a Vista machine.
if you steal from one source, that is plagiarism, if you steal from many, well, that's just research.
They should make an "I'm Linux" commercial.
They should cast John Roberts, the guy in the enzyte commercials, for windows, and Ellen Feiss for mac.
As for who would play linux? I'm thinking a /. poll for that...
New Poll: Who plays "Linux" in the commercial?
- The Geico Lizard
- Scarlett Johansson
- Jonny Lee Miller aka Zero Cool
- Carrie-Anne Moss
- CowboyNeal
I think they should add a Linux guy who comes, tears the still-beating heart out of PC Guy and ass-rapes Mac Guy. Then he and BSD Guy could go and tag-team on Mac Guy, using PC Guy's bloodied corpse as a weapon, shoving it repeatedly into Mac Guy's stomach until Mac Guy's torso is ripped in half. Perhaps OS2 Guy and Amiga Guy, old codgers that they are, could come along and piss on the corpses of the two most obnoxious and retarded assholes to ever grace a computer ad.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
This statement is borderline libelous. Just the facts, please. Well, in a lawyer-logic kinda way, he's right. Apple has done NONE of the exact things Microsoft has done to their OS.
Like, if Microsoft fixes a flaw in their security that doesn't exist on a Mac, then obviously Apple has not, nor will it ever take that step. Can't you see how risky it is to pick a Mac, which didn't benefit from years and years of exploit expertise?
Would you want to risk getting infected on a machine without any known exploits? You should really pick the one with a lot of known exploits... better go with the devil you know!
[end lawyer logic]
I'd rather pick the one where holes are patched before they're exploited, but that's just me.
You can't take the sky from me...
Paul Allen was the brilliant programmer. Gates was the mediocre one.
http://www.dieblinkenlights.com
I tried, unfortunately he did not make it through surgery. He did give me his peripherals, though.
this is late to the party but: the LAST piece of actual code that I knwo of that Bill wrote was the port of Microsoft Basic to the Tandy Model 100 Portable, and, I also knwo the 2 glaring bugs he left in it.
- Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carborata descendum pantorum.
To knwo, knwo, knwo them, is to loev, loev, loev them.
(my apologies if you are actually dyslexic)
Is -1, interesting really interesting or just too long and somewhat non-opinional but if you've got time to lose read it? Because that's long and I don't know if I should or should not read your opinion based on the moderation. -1, interesting should not exist...
Of Code And Men
A: I've never seen it. 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.
Bill's never done tech support, has he?
candid - carefully articulated, with purposed reference to selling points and marketing terms, avoidance of meaningful response to questions, and absolute denial of facts.
perl -e "eval pack(q{H*},join q{},qw{70 72696e74207061636b28717b482a7d2c717b343 637323635363534323533343430617d293b})"
Mind you, that's after all of the denial, anger, bargaining and depression.
And did you know that part of their solution to keep Vista from being hacked is:
"don't dual boot linux (this is how viruses spread)"
Vote monkeys into Congress. They are cheaper and more trustworthy.
In that case, XP and Vista are pretty secure. It's those third party apps like Outlook and Internet Explorer which are the issue.
Check out my lame java blog at www.javachopshop.com
Hmm, Mr. Gates, I'd definitely like some of those features. Perhaps I should go pick up a Mac. (In black, please.)
I [may] disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
I am. but it is still funny ;)
- Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carborata descendum pantorum.
No, it's true! Apple hasn't edited a single line of Windows code to improve security.
-- Braden's law of data: All data spends some of its lifetime in an excel spreadsheet.
Wait, didn't he already win?
Anyway, as Lisa Simpson once said: "I can't believe you're actually comparing yourself to Gandhi!"