CNN’s Miles O’Brien interviewed Bill Gates about the debut of Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows Vista, this morning.
One portion was especially interesting:
O’Brien: Frankly, a lot of what I see here, um, seems to mimic a little bit [Apple’s Mac] OS X. Were you going after a specific look there, the Mac look, or?
MacDailyNews Take: A little bit? Ya think?
Gates: No, no, no. Actually, uh, the, we’re ahead [slight pause] on a lot, uh, there’s whole areas where we’ve innovated like Media Center and tablet, uh, that, uh, no one else is doing and the parental control, that’s the first time that’s been done. Even in this photo area, you know, we’d love to have you compare how we’ve done, make it easy to make a DVD, edit high definition movies.
Snippet of Miles O’Brien’s CNN interview with Microsoft’s Bill Gates:
Full video interview here.
MacDailyNews Take: Note Gates’ uncomfortable squirming in his chair, frequent pauses, and “uhs.” Wow.
Gates’ body language reminds us of PC’s squirming here:
Mr. Gates, perhaps the reason that no one else is doing “innovations” like Media Center and tablet is because of your, uh, sales figures for those products?
As for the rest:
• Parental Controls: Apple debuted Parental Controls in Mac OS X Tiger, released on April 29. 2005. That’s nearly two years ago. (Gates yesterday spoke with NBC’s Today Show host Meredith Vieira and tried out the same “parental controls” lie there, too, at 2:34 into the video here.)
• Photos: Apple debuted iPhoto on January 7, 2002. That’s over five years ago.
• DVD creation: Apple debuted iDVD on January 9, 2001. That’s over six years ago.
• Movies: Apple debuted iMovie on October 5, 1999. That’s over seven years ago. Oh, HD? Okay, Apple debuted iMovie HD on January 11, 2005. That’s over two years ago.
So much for Microsoft’s “whole areas” of innovation.
Related articles:
Gates bristles over Vista, Mac OS X comparisons – January 29, 2007
Pioneer Press: Windows Vista shows ‘Apple is an innovation engine; Microsoft, not so much’ – January 29, 2007
Imitating Apple Computer is no match for innovation – January 17, 2006
Apple’s talent and innovation vs. Microsoft’s hype – October 25, 2005
PC World: Microsoft innovation – an oxymoron – September 14, 2005
Charles Arthur: Microsoft’s definition of ‘innovation’ different from everyone else’s – April 27, 2004
Let the stupid sheep buy Vista. When they get it home and it won’t even run on their 2 year old PC, they’ll really know what Gates means by “Wow”…
Perfect time for a Mac and PC Guy ad about Parental Controls. Best to combat the Gates lies with humor.
Bill Gates’ body language is very revealing. Have a look at this interview and also at the one yesterday on MSNBC with that Meredith Vierra chick. In both interviews when he is asked about Vista’s obvious similarities to OS X, he does a big shuffling about and repositioning of himself in his chair. It’s the same “tell” both times. This sort of body language reveals that a person is highly uncomfortable with the issue before them. As well he should be.
“we’d love to have you compare how we’ve done”
Them’s fightin’ words, Clem.
If Bill’s dad was Geppetto, he would have skewered thousands of people to death in the southeastern U.S. this morning unfortunate enough to be in his line of nostrils.
I must admit some of the screenshots I’ve seen of Vista are impressive. They truly made a big stride in visual elegance, no doubt thanks to Apple. Leopard better be revolutionary with a whole new look. From what I’ve seen, however, it looks a lot like the current OSX. That, to me, is disappointing. I like visual change. On that one note, Microsoft scored a hole-in-one. Aside from that, Vista is a failure.
Will Gates throw chairs when he gets back to Redmond when every interviewer has asked him how it feels to have released a Mac clone?
Sad. I think Bill Gates is doing more to wreck Vista than help it. They really should have had someone with more speaking experience doing these interviews. Gates looks really sad in all of them (Daily Show, CNN, etc).
Great stuff. They’re all asking and he hates it.
Good. Squirm Bill. Squirm.
Wow, upon looking more closely at Vista, it would appear that it really is an adavance over Apple’s offerings. Why, you can easily edit high-definition content, easily make your own DVD movies, and they have this nifty photo gallery app that offers basic touch-up capabilities as well as serving as a central repository for your photo collection.
I have to admit that this is all pretty cool stuff, and I’d really love to have it, so I’m going to switch to Vista now, seeing as how you can’t do any of that on the Mac for years now.
This is where you send comments to CNN on the blatant, outright lies told to Miles O’Brien this morning:
http://www.cnn.com/feedback/
Who knows? They might try a follow-up.
A six billion dollar, five year waste of time is certainly newsworthy.
Think of all of the shareholders and pension funds that should sue Microsoft for a monumental waste of resources.
Gates doesn’t have to know truth from lies.
He actually believes <u>he</u> decides the truth.
Looser, twat, nerd … MDN word= Glass, yeah Glass!
TOO faaakin funny
bill
you got OWNED !!
What I think is interesting is that journalists have the gonads to pose the question.
Let’s face it, Gates & Co. have been copying the Mac since Windows 1.0. Its just that now, they’re getting called for it.
The King is wearing no clothes.
I did say “WOW” to some of the features in windows Vista. However, I did my “WOW” during the Macworld keynotes over the past 8 years to these innovative features. Heck, some of the features were in OS9. WOW, MS innovation is finally heading into the late 90s. “Microsoft.Where did I go yesterday?” I would say today but been there, done that.
Well that about wraps it up for Photoshop Elements…. Now that the Photo thing is “Built in the OS” It will kill any 3rd party photo programs.. Here we go with the whole Explorer monopoly thing again..
“um, seems to mimic a little bit [Apple’s Mac] OS X”
Nice way to back off there, Miles, you pussy. Was Billy concealing a gun?
Zune Tang….what have you done with OOPS body?
If you go to cnn.com
they have a quick vote, (along right lower side)
Will you be updating your software to Vista??
after my vote the results were
yes, right away 6%
eventually, no rush 78%
I don’t use windows 16%
I am impressed with the “I don’t use windows” vote
It really doesn’t matter. Microsoft won the OS war decades ago, and they did just enough to keep their user base satisfied.
If hardly anyone switched in the last 5 years, do you really think they will now.
Windows Vista, bringing the power of OS X* to those who believe they’re ‘innovating’!
* Windows Vista’s OS X power has been significantly reduced due to some major blemishes on the copier’s glass. Functionality may be impaired.
while MDN is right to call shenanigans on Gates, it is worth remembering that first to market does not = best implementation. See the iPod, par example …
BUSTER! QUICK! Turn on your sarcasm meter!
Whew! That was a close one.
PC walks up to Mac dressed in a tshirt and hoodie, and announces that he just came back from surgery and upgraded to Vista. PC then turns around and asks for Mac’s opinion.
Mac, stares at PC in disbelief, and tells him that he’s had that same look and features for the last five years. PC stammers and disagrees with him.
PC then starts sneezing, and informs Mac that he still must have caught a virus. A guy comes in dressed as a Hollywood director, takes PC’s glassess off of his face, throws them on the door and stomps on them. When PC and Mac demands an explanation, he tells them that since PC’s glasses don’t protect high def movie content, he’s entitled to break them. PC stammers that he doesn’t watch high def movies, and Hollywood guy informs him that he can do that with Vista, read the contract. PC sadly stammers that he can’t read the Vista contract since his glasses have just been broken.
PC then begins to sigh and softly weep: he still hurts from the upgrade surgery, he still has gotten sick on the internet, and the Hollywood type broke his glasses. PC states that he is now sorry that he went to Vista.
Mac walks over to PC and consoles him with a pat to the back. Hollywood Guy walks over to Mac, asks if Mac has glasses, and Mac makes him leave the commercial. The scene cuts to an iMac with an unbroken pair of glasses in front of it.[end]
Did anyone notice yesterday’s Gates retort regarding Mac vs. Windows innovation? He completely broadsided the the issue with what was less a response and more a non-violent threat:
“Remember that Windows is where the investment is. It’s where the partners are. That’s why it’s the best.”
Translation: Everyone’s buried so deep in Windows infrustructure, you have no choice now.
1. i press f10 for expose and the windows appear on my screen in a specific pattern
2. i select a window and work
3.. i press f10 for expose again and the widows are in a slightly DIFFERENT arrangement than before
That annoys me; especailly when i’ve many windows open and am trying to get work done. I don’t want to hunt down the previous window. Otherwise, expose kicks ass.