PC vs. Mac: Bill Gates Just Doesn’t Get It

We try not to get in the middle of things when it comes to discussing operating systems. We really do. But when Newsweek confronts Bill Gates about the PC vs. Mac ads, we’re gonna have to talk about it. Here’s what Gates said that’s got everyone up in a tizzy:

And I don’t know why [Apple is] acting like it’s superior. I don’t even get it. What are they trying to say? Does honesty matter in these things, or if you’re really cool, that means you get to be a lying person whenever you feel like it? There’s not even the slightest shred of truth to it.

Fine. Really. He has a point. But speaking of being a lying person, we just don’t buy his answer to this other question:

Are you bugged by the Apple commercial where John Hodgman is the PC, and he has to undergo surgery to get Vista?

I’ve never seen it.

LIAR!

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