{"id":3962,"date":"2007-02-02T14:55:21","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T22:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/02\/02\/throwing-down-the-gauntlet\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T11:43:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T19:43:42","slug":"throwing-down-the-gauntlet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/02\/02\/throwing-down-the-gauntlet\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwing down the gauntlet&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:6147,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.msnbc.msn.com\\\/id\\\/16934083\\\/site\\\/newsweek&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Bill Gates, in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/16934083\/site\/newsweek\/\">interview with Steven Levy for Newsweek<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  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.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s a few other doozy quotes in there as well, but that&#8217;s the one that <em>really<\/em> got my attention.<\/p>\n<p>More under the jump&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  When somebody comes to us [after discovering a vulnerability] we\u2019ve got [a fix] before there is any exploit. So it\u2019s totally according to plan, and that\u2019s 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\u2019ve done some dramatic things [to improve security] in the code base. Apple hasn\u2019t done any of those things.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Regarding the need for many PCs to upgrade to run Vista, which Apple is poking fun at in recent commercials:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  And I don&#8217;t know why [Apple is] acting like it\u2019s superior. I don&#8217;t even get it. What are they trying to say? Does honesty matter in these things, or if you&#8217;re really cool, that means you get to be a lying person whenever you feel like it? There&#8217;s not even the slightest shred of truth to it.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Regarding interface similarities between Mac OS X and Vista (and, historically, the Mac OS and Windows):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  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, &#8220;Steve Jobs invented the world, and then the rest of us came along,&#8221; that&#8217;s fine. If you\u2019re interested, [Vista development chief] Jim Allchin will be glad to educate you feature by feature what the truth is. [&#8230;] Let\u2019s 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?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Gates: 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039],"tags":[6,65],"class_list":["post-3962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","tag-humor","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}