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

[Kevin Callahan]

On Feb 2, 2007, at 10:49 AM, Patrick Coskren wrote:

> On Feb 2, 2007, at 1:44 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote:
>>
>> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16934083/site/newsweek/page/2/
>>
>> 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

and how about this  for being "insecure"

GATES: Nowadays, 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