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February 02, 2007
Bill Gates, confused or deluded?
| I was reading a Newsweek interview with Bill Gates this morning, and was was of course expecting a bit of spin. But I wasn't expecting Bill to be living in his own Reality Distortion Field (no longer a Jobs-only superpower, apparently). On the second page of the interview, in a question about feature comparisons between OS X and Windows, and how they both borrow features from each other, Bill had this to say: |
"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."
Now, I understand that Gates is pushing hard to convince folks to upgrade to Vista, but this is such a classic example of FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) that Microsoft is famous for.
The interviewer should have followed up asking if Bill could cite one example of a Mac exploit allowing a machine takeover. And how can he claim that Windows isn't vulnerable to such attacks?
Posted by Kevin Railsback at February 2, 2007 11:25 AM
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