Did Bill Gates’ Lies Cause Apple’s New TV Ads?
Well, what goes around comes around. Just last week Microsoft honcho Bill Gates was caught lying about Apple, Mac OS X during interviews. This week, the rebellion strikes back. Apple’s new TV commercials pound Vista with a delightfully barbed wit. Here’s how it all began. Microsoft launched Vista near the end of January, weeks after Apple’s big news about the widescreen iPod, uh, the Internet Communictor, um, the iPhone. To ensure a rousing sendoff of the long awaited new Windows, Microsoft’s heads, Chairman Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer made the rounds of TV interviews. In an unexpected show of chutzpah, nearly every interviewer asked Bill Gates questions about the Mac, the iPod, security, and the like. It had to be embarassing for Bill. At every turn he was asked if Microsoft’s features were simply items already in Mac OS X. Finally, Bill Gates lost his cool to Steven Levy of Newsweek, and simply lied about Windows Vista’s performance compared to the Mac. We captured a few of the
