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

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

On 4 févr. 07, at 02:58, Rosyna wrote:

> That's what I'd like to believe. But the copious use of brackets  
> seem to say he did indeed say all of this. Which says a *lot* about  
> his technical ability. There were a few gross inaccuracies  
> attributed to his mouth.

I am surprised few of the commentators here got the whole thing: it  
is yet another exercise in marketing Vista, at a time where  
_everybody_ has heard "Mac are Intel PCs too" and "Macs can run  
windows apps too". The target is not the "cool" people, but the  
slightly uncool people: those who read Newsweek and all the news feed  
that are going to quote NewsWeek (and certainly not the list members'  
blogs). Come on, have you ever read Newsweek ?

Besides, the article has most probably been approved by MS before  
publication, so they know exactly what is correct, what is not, what  
the wording would be etc.

All the exercises in facts checking are vain, because nobody will  
published them in NewsWeek anyway, and _if_ they were to be  
published, _those_ would look defensive and not the original paper.  
at least to NewsWeek readers.

And we all know that MS is generally full of crap, so why bother ?

Jean-Christophe Helary

>
> Ack, at 2/2/07, Scott Stevenson said:
>
>> I have a hard time picturing him saying these things. I wonder if  
>> he was misquoted.