Microsoft chairman Bill Gates talked with NBC’s Today Show host Meredith Vieira about the launch of Windows Vista this morning, but the interview led in with a segment that talked quite a bit about Apple.
In the interview, Gates lies straight off the mark with, “An operating system has never had parental control features before…”
MacDailyNews Note: Of course, Apple’s Mac OS X Tiger, released April 29, 2005, featured built-in parental controls (http://www.apple.com/macosx/theater/parentalcontrols.html). Unfortunately, Meredith Vieira was ill-equipped to challenge Gates’ lie. That would have been something to see had she been able to do so.
Of Apple Mac, Gates told Vieira, “People oughta keep in mind that Windows is where the biggest investment, the biggest set of partners are, and that’s why it’s always been the best choice.” Gates also said, with a straight face no less, that “Vista’s the most advanced operating system for security ever done.”
The full NBC Today Show video can be seen here.
In a related article, Paul R. La Monica reports for CNNMoney, “Gates bristled at the suggestion that Vista had some similarities to Apple’s OS X operating system for Macs. ‘No no no. There are whole areas where we’ve innovated,’ Gates said during the interview… Gates’ comments were from an interview on CNN’s “American Morning,” which will air on Tuesday January 30 to coincide with Vista’s release.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: It sure in nice to see some in the mainstream media deciding not to give derivative Microsoft and their chief bullshit artist Gates a free pass this time around.
[UPDATE: 6:49pm EST: Removed the reference to the YouTube video clip as it was distracting from the main points of the article.]
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In the interview, Gates lies straight off the mark with
(Gates): “…I did not have sex with that monkey.”
“Vista’s the most advanced operating system for security ever done.”
(Gates): “Define ‘for’. It was security as I understood it”.
I read online that there were 80 people in Japan waiting in line for Vista.
How does that compare to the opening of an Apple Store in Japan?
Sadly, I think that is exactly the idea that a lot of people have nowadays . . . the only way to prosper is to cheat, lie, and connive. Pity.
Have no pity. Those who choose that path are eventually found out. The piper ALWAYS gets paid.
Like when the masses discover Vista is the same old shit, just with enough crust to make it look different.
“There are whole areas where we’ve innovated…“
I wasn’t aware it was possible to innovate poop.
I read online that there were 80 people in Japan waiting in line for Vista.
Must be the same 80 people who bought a Zune.
re: Vista security
C’mon folks. Give them credit where it’s due.
After 6 years and six billion dollars, a box to click o.k. is a HUGE innovative security advance for this bloatfest of a fetid crap pile from a convicted monopolist. And it’s pretty.
Anyone have the YouTube link?
“No no no. There are whole areas where we’ve innovated,” <– and areas where they haven’t, eh?
I’m also getting balmer as miss . . . . .
Kermit and Piggy. Perfect!
Did she ever throw chairs?
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Gates is such an ass!!! Can’t believe he would lie straight to someone’s face.
bill you got me at “No no no. There are whole areas where we’ve innovated”
Can’t imagine windows ever generating this kind of love.
That vid was great.
You know what scared me the most about the interview – there are mini-Bill Gates running around.
Besides, can you imagine the trauma when they found out that daddy’s life work is stealing from other people.
But when they hit the teen years, they will rebel, it will start slowly an ipod here, and apple tv there until they are running switcher sites. 😀
It’s interesting that the founder of one of the largest software company in the world is so comfortable with lying blatantly on national TV. Just a thought.
Well…here’s one YouTube link: I wonder if there’s a Vista equivalent [hint: pay some video blogger, Bill] Mac Beautiful. Paging anakniPedro….
MW: music.
I was struck by Gates body language. Not th the subtle variety.
Notice how on more than one occasion, he actually shifts positions in his chair before answering.
Daddy won’t let me use a Mac!
If I remember correcty, ever since the 1st version of OS X we have had parental controls built-in.
Create a user account for your kids and you will see what I mean…
Look at Microsoft’s and Apple’s share price…
I think it’s pretty obvious which company innovates and which one is the dead corporate monolith on it’s last legs.
>”There are whole areas where we’ve innovated…”
>>”I wasn’t aware it was possible to innovate poop.”
This time the poop has widgets, um gadgets and is see through! And you only need an atom splitter to run it.
Did BG ever say ‘Yeeeaah that’s the ticket’ during the interview?
M$ inovacion is nothing,is only a piece of bad software,and they should get retard because C++ language is very very old.
[UPDATE: 6:49pm EST: Removed the reference to the YouTube video clip as it was distracting from the main points of the article.]
… OR could it have been that MDN misheard what Gates said and put up an inaccurately headline that fueled the discussion?
No, no. It was the CLIP’s fault.
What a pathetic situation we have here. We have a cult led by the Great Steve. Then we have outfits like MDN, staffed by acolytes, that run Mac internet sites riddled with popups and ads. This MDN ringleader posts total bullshit stuff on this website just to attract traffic to the site and get revenue off these ads, while complaining about other sites that do the same thing. And the Mac Faithful falls for it.
You’re all a bunch of pathetic fracks. Windows Vista will be available in over 30,000 stores today. No big lines, no fanfare – it will simply assimilate the computer world just like every other version of Windows has.
Meanwhile you Mac Acolytes are tearing at your hair and foaming at the mouth over it while nobody outside your little cult even knows you exist, or could care lees even if they did know.
So don’t you people have something to do? Something productive instead of spouting bullshit on this little internet support site for insecure Mac users? I think you people need to get a life.
Does Bill G know he “misled” the viewers about parental control? Of course he did!
And every time he was asked a tricky question, he fidgeted in his seat by raising his buttocks and resettling them on the couch.
Come to think of it, he performed this fidget for almost every question, showing distinct signs of unease. MDN should get one those experts on body language to analyse Bill’s “corporate twitchiness”.
What do you think of his body language?
Soon they’ll be raving lunatics in classic Hunter Thompson style.
Please. Hunter was a shining beacon of sanity.