Bill Gates and Reality

It is funny, yet sad reading a Bill Gates interview, especially after the launch of something so unique as Vista. Funny because most of it is a completely distorted version of reality, yet sad because almost everyone falls for it (by using windows).
The best one so far is the one he gave to Newsweek (part of MSNBC) here.
Well, every sentence which Bill speaks is hilarious and downright wrong, but i guess it'll be fun examining the gems.

On being asked about the delay of Vista, here is what he had to say:

"We released Windows XP about five years ago. During that time, we’ve had, I think, three releases of Media Center, four releases of [Windows Media], Tablet releases, Windows XP SP2, which was really a very major release. So in no sense has Windows been standing still. Actually, if you look at Windows strength versus Linux, or versus anything, it’s done very well, because we have this big ecosystem."

Now hang on a minute, Gates, Media Center and Tablet are just different names you attached to XP, and you say SP2 was a major release? You mean lots of security fixes in it, right? So i interpret it this way : No folks, we have been very busy these 5 years, re-labelling our products, trying to fix those security holes, and ducking from the flying chairs. Then he goes on to mention Linux. Thats funny,i guess there have been 4 releases of Ubuntu itself in the past 3 years or so, and each is a huge leap forward. So, what is so different in Tablet and Media Center?? I dont know, but some M$ fanboys will answer that. Expect something like : OMG Mediacenter is teh roxxorzz..it has a modified start menu and green screens of death - take that you Linux/Apple suxxors. (Oops, sorry..business execs dont speak like this).
Moving on to Security..heres what he says:

"The number [of violations] will be way less because we’ve done some dramatic things [to improve security] in the code base. Apple hasn’t done any of those things."

Great, now its clear he wants to start a M$ vs. Apple/Linux flamewar.. Unfortunately theres nobody to flame him to ashes, since the poor interviewer is already owned by M$. Call me when you feel like being humbled, Bill. If BillyG posted such a comment on Slashdot, he would've committed suicide, i bet.

He goes on :

"I don't think the over 90 percent of the [population] who use Windows PCs think of themselves as dullards, or the kind of klutzes that somebody is trying to say they are." (Answer to the Apple vs. PC ads)

No, ofcourse not, Bill, they are Dinosaurs!

And on he goes, literally meaning "M$ rocks, Apple sucks, i say it, so you believe it."

And now it gets really sad. I am posting the whole question answer verbatim..apparently my brain can't comprehend this utter nonsense in such a concentrated dose :

QS:"In many of the Vista reviews, even the positive ones, people note that some Vista features are already in the Mac operating system."

BillyG : "You can go through and look at who showed any of these things first, if you care about the facts."

OK we copied it from Apple, so what?

If you just want to say, "Steve Jobs invented the world, and then the rest of us came along," that's fine."

I dont care, Jobs created , i copied, big deal.

"If you’re interested, [Vista development chief] Jim Allchin will be glad to educate you feature by feature what the truth is."

Allchin apparently liked Macs, so he copied all the features.

"I mean, it’s fascinating, maybe we shouldn't have showed so publicly the stuff we were doing, because we knew how long the new security base was going to take us to get done."

OH, so you invented a time machine, eh Bill..now we know how you made so much money.

"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."

Looks like he lost his temper (and his sense) again. His personality's a lot like Ballmer's, he just can't fling chairs as far.

"I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine."

Oh yes..thats so difficult, really. I mean you want us to break Vista once a month? I don't know whether the temptation to break it 10 times a day can be avoided.

"So, yes, it took us longer, and they had what we were doing, user interface-wise. Let’s be realistic, who came up with [the] file, edit, view, help [menu bar]? Do you want to go back to the original Mac and think about where those interface concepts came from?"

"See, we copied the original Mac interface too, big deal.
On a side-note, on an interview on BBC, answering a question on Apple, he said that "He enjoys having them in the business". Of course, so that he can shamelessly copy their products.

One question to Bill from me : When did you last have your head examined, Gates? Looks like the flying chairs have killed your last remaining neuron.

Well, the interview gets boring from this point on..Gates spews more BS, and the interviewer laps it all up. Well, i wish was a brainless git with zero ethics and no sense of right/wrong. I'd be a billionaire just like him.