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

[Kevin Callahan]

On Feb 2, 2007, at 1:01 PM, Scott Stevenson wrote:

>
> On Feb 2, 2007, at 10:44 AM, Kevin Callahan wrote:
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>> 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

yeah -- Newsweek

could be "viral marketing"

LOL


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