I read this interview, at the beginning I thought it wasn't related to technology (there was a similar interview on his life and how he deal with richness). But it seems it has had more of the basic questioning from an end user point of view, on how windows is really a menance to society.
-- Alexandro Colorado Co-Leader of OpenOffice.org Spanish http://es.openoffice.org/ Mensaje citado por Daniel Carrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hey, you guys are going to love this interview. For once, an interviewer > asked Bill some neat questions: > > http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,340395,00.html > > Like for instance: > > > SPIEGEL: Microsoft is not only a part of the solution, but also, because > of its market power, part of the problem. When a company provides more > than 90 percent of all personal computers with software it is inevitably a > target for hackers interested in causing the most damage possible. > > Gates: There are actually a large number of operating systems in addition > to Windows, for example, such as OS from Apple or Linux and Unix... > > SPIEGEL: ... but in the realm of normal personal computers, they don't > play a large role worldwide. > > Gates: The truth is: the fewer operating systems there are within a > company, the better it is from a security point of view. > > SPIEGEL: I beg your pardon? > > > ... [snip] ... > > > SPIEGEL: But your small competitor Apple, for example, is much less > frequently a victim of virus attacks ... > > > > Gates: ... put so sweepingly, that is not correct. Of course we are the > largest target, simply because we have the most widely disseminated > system. But it affects others in exactly the same way. Linux is, in many > respects, even more significantly affected. > > SPIEGEL: In a few hours a Windows virus can travel across the world like > an epidemic... > > Gates: ... above all because of our global popularity. But we know that. > And we must apply still more time and money to it. However, spam or data > theft are not questions of the operating system. For this, you also need > laws and global standards. > > SPIEGEL: Once again: Windows is the most vulnerable. > > > Cheers, > -- > Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, > Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it Tuesday. > http://oooauthors.org | > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
