Bill Gates on Vista and Apple's 'Lying' Ads (Mac OS X vs Vista)

[Patrick Coskren]

On Feb 2, 2007, at 1:44 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote:
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> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16934083/site/newsweek/page/2/
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> How about the implication that you need surgery to upgrade?
>
> GATES: Well, certainly we've done a better job letting you upgrade  
> on the hardware than our competitors have done. You can choose to  
> buy a new machine, or you can choose to do an upgrade. And I don't  
> know why [Apple is] acting like it’s superior. I don't even get it.  
> What are they trying to say? Does honesty matter in these things,  
> or if you're really cool, that means you get to be a lying person  
> whenever you feel like it? There's not even the slightest shred of  
> truth to it.

"if you're really cool, that means you get to... ?"

Not to psychoanalyze too much, but you'd think that the third or  
fourth billion in the bank account would sort of soothe the  
insecurity issues.

-Patrick