Friday, February 02, 2007

Thoughts from Bill Gates

I read one of the many interviews that Bill Gates gave when they finally released Vista. It turns out that Apple stole all of their ideas from Microsoft. It seems that Microsoft took so long to release Vista because they took the time to make it secure while OSX was just puked out and gets hacked "every single day".

Yea, Bill. Stick with that story.

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.


Yes, although security is a [complicated concept]. You’re [referring to] the fact that there have been some security updates already for Windows Vista. This is exactly the way it should work. When somebody comes to us [after discovering a vulnerability] we’ve got [a fix] before there is any exploit. So it’s totally according to plan, and that’s why we have the whole Windows Update thing. We made it way harder for guys to do exploits. 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.

WTF BILL?


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Would someone please stuff a sock into his mouth and duct tape it shut? Thank you. No wait, use stanky underwear off a hobo. With gonorrhea.