BWHAHAHAHAH! Bill Gates on Vista and the Apple Ads

I always thought BG was simply a marketing genius.

 

Best one yet. Watched it 100 times

http://images.apple.com/movies/us/apple/getamac/apple-getamac-security_480x376.mov

 

Its not, but they have done well marketing Windows as being the insecure operating system. Here are some facts for you to remember.

1: Mac is no more secure then anything else. Its not really about MAc vs PC. Check their security update list sometime, it reads like a Windows security read me. If you are in business, do you target 95% of people, or 5% of them? Simple fact, Linux, Mac, Windows, Unix, if you send and receive data, your vulnerable. Want to be safe? Do go on the internet.

2: Linux is no more secure then anything else. See above.

3: Mac is a great operating system lacking good software. Its also expensive. Most people I know who would buy a Mac, run for the hills when they see the price. Too bad they can use their billions in profit to make their "super secure" computers more readily available.

4: Linux is a pain in the butt to use and decide which release. People run for the hills usually before getting to install it.

5: Vista is pretty damn good. Sorry, too many people are running around just repeating what they have heard without using it or having a friggin clue. Use it for a couple weeks, then tell me what you think.


The commercial has a good point about the permissions, but unless you download 20 files a day, its not going to be a big bother and sadly, what they dont want to tell you is that so many morons, yes I said morons, dont get that porn and stealing software is wrong, the mass of morons have to be forewarned before they get infected. They have it sugercoated, but make no mistake, the permissions in Vista is for the vast majority of morons who just go click, click, click without a friggin clue. It would be a tough sell if they called it the moron system. "Congratulations moron, Vista will protect your dumb, click happy, porn downloading as5 from getting malware." I dont think that would work.

The majority of malware is now from porn, illegal music and movies. Drive by downloads and the like have been stopped, or slowed down by the removal of Virtual Machine and with other security measures like blocking of drive by downloads and images\attachments in email. Sadly, this has not been enough to slow the onslaught of malware, so they had to add in more security and people are complaining. Hint, disable it. Just like the Mac commercial said. If your computer savvy, this wont be a problem. Im waiting to see malware try to disable just to show how effective it really is.....

I am slowly now hearing large organizations publicly saying that Vista is pretty damn good, sadly, it will take a while for the kiddie mentality to finally admit it.