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

[Bill Coleman]

On Feb 2, 2007, at 1:44 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote:

> 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.

Methinks he doth protest too much.

Must have hit really close to the mark....

Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr at mac.com
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