Bill Gates Is VERY Bitter!

Bill is showing himself to be a bit more than a little defensive in this interview!  And I love the PC guy, who Bill mentions, going in for surgery so he can be upgraded to run Vista.  Bill is quick to forget he really only had about 1 new idea, and that goes way back to MS DOS?!

And, Bill, for the record, the challenge to hack the Mac OS was issued over at Daring Fireball.  There was a blaze of internet usage as people repeatedly tried to attack his little Mac.  And why not try, he offered a free computer to anyone who could do it!!  No one did.  It wasn't even done once.  Not uno.  Let's stick to the truth here, shall we?  Windows is hacked on virtually a daily basis, not the Mac OS.

And now Windows invented it all first?!  Is this guy on something really serious?!

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

Bill:  You can go through and look at who showed any of these things first, if you care about the facts. If you just want to say, "Steve Jobs invented the world, and then the rest of us came along," that's fine.  [Oops!  A little personal jealousy here????  A spot of bitterness perhaps????]  If you’re interested, [Vista development chief] Jim Allchin will be glad to educate you feature by feature what the truth is. 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.

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. 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? ...

Source:  Bill Gates on Vista and Apple's 'Lying' Ads  - Newsweek Technology - MSNBC.com