Friday, February 02, 2007

Bill Gates on Vista and Apple's 'Lying' Ads

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.
Speaking of something without the slightest shred of truth to it and being a lying person, look no further than a later quote in that same interview:
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.
Based on his math, there should be at least 2,500 'total exploits' for the Mac since OS X was released in March 2001. And yet the Month of Apple Bugs project could only cough up 22 'bugs' (vastly different from 'total exploits') -- not even enough to fill a short month like February, much less January.

A great rebuttal from Daring Fireball's John Gruber:
Lies, Damned Lies, and Bill Gates
It’s either an angry, slanderous lie, or Bill Gates is an uninformed jackass.

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