It's Cool Vs. Nerdy.. Jobs/Gates

There's a juicy Jobs/Gates feud doing the rounds, and it's based on a set of TV ads. You might have seen print ads of this sort- a geeky-looking person in a business suit, and a PC beneath him."I'm a PC", and a "cool"-looking teenager on the right clad in jeans, and beneath him, "I'm a mac." Similar to that are the new TC ads, but these actually use characters that look like Gates and Jobs. The nerdy guy, of course, looks like Gates.


Tech new Web site theregister.co.uk has called the long-standing fued between the two men a "tedious psychodrama between two megalomaniacs,: and it all hings around that Jobs takes Gates' success personally.

In fact, Jobs once said, "The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste , and what that means is- "I don't mean in a small way I mean that in a big way."

Asked about the ads, Gates said he hadn't seen it. Then he said he had.

And then- fireworks! For no we can see.. " I don't think the over 90% of those who use Windows PC's think of themselves as dullards, or the kind of klutzes that somebody is trying to say they are," was the first thing Gates had to say. Why the insecurity? "And i don't know why (apple is) acting like it's superior." Actually, thats one's pretty obvious- because they have "cooler" products, isn't it?


"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."


Not to worry, Bill. Even if we don't love you personally, we love our Windows. The Romanian president loves you too, by the way!!