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

[Scott Stevenson]

On Feb 2, 2007, at 10:44 AM, 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.
>
> 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

I have a hard time picturing him saying these things. I wonder if he  
was misquoted.

    - Scott

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