What the Mac faithful have been saying for months and what Microsoft has been denying for that same amount of time has finally come out as a surprise statement from Bill Gates himself.
While visiting a local Redmond, Washington bar, a MacComedy reporter noticed Gates drinking with Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer. The reporter approached the duo, pretending (with much difficultly) to be a big Microsoft fan. Finally, the reporter causally asked about the whole duck fiasco.
(laughing)
"So, what about that whole duck thing? Did you guys really steal
that from Apple?" the reporter asked.
"Yeah, we stole the f***ing duck!" a visably intoxicated Gates responded. "We needed more icons for our multiuser logon screen and the people at Microsoft aren't too good at coming up with ideas. Some ideas thrown around were the symbol for pi and a pair of glasses with tape around the center."
"Finally," Gates continued, "I'm like 'Hey, we stole the whole interface for Windows from Apple, why not steal a multiuser icon?' Everyone laughed, but the next day, that cute little duck was smiling at me from an e-mail."
MacComedy
discovered that zooming into the duck icon from Windows XP, there is a
fairly obvious clue that the duck was stolen from Apple.
Apparently, other thefts may be coming.
"I mean, obviously the whole "XP" thing is taken right from Apple," said Gates. "Idiots out there are too dumb to realize there's nothing else it could mean!"
At this point, both Gates and Balmer downed a shot of 151 and headbutted each other.
According to Gates, the Windows XP interface is being referred to as "Liquid". Gates explains that "You'll just want to suck it."
The taskbar is being altered to look much more like Mac OS X's dock, complete with a genie effect Microsoft calls "Swooshing".
When asked if they're worried about possible lawsuits from the blatant intellectual property theft, Gates responds "We're f***ing Microsoft! Apple sues us and we just make even crappier versions of Windows. Then everyone suffers and is really pissed off at Apple. You don't mess with a f***ing monopoly."
When asked his opinion of the situation, Balmer responded, "Where's
my f***ing beer! Can't I get a beer in a f***ing bar! Son of a b****!"
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