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

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the oh-bill dept.

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."

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  1. Well, of course he's saying that. by AltGrendel · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    He needs to keep the boxes moving out the door. It's all promo anyway. I haven't heard about all those Mac exploits he's referring to, have you?

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  2. Re:ring ring by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    no u

  3. Re:Has the media has woken up? by aztracker1 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm not affiliated with them at all, but honestly, I love the editorials in CPU Magazine ... I like the product reviews in Maximum PC a bit better, but the editorial content in CPU makes it worth my subscription. The Saint's editorials in particular tend to point out a *LOT* of flaws in MS's practices and licensing...

    Those two are about the only ones I read completely through every month, of the half dozen magazines I get (I also read most of Linux Journal as well).

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