Bill Gates, you are…

… a moron. Or at least deluded. Or perhaps just brainwashed by the strength of your own marketing. Or trying to make up for the fact that Microsoft (as it currently exists) is headed straight for the toilet. Or perhaps a misunderstood genius? Whichever way: I don’t understand.

I don’t normally blog about random things like this (since there’s no doubt more than enough coverage out there), but this is just so bizarre that I had to. Today Engadget highlighted highlighted the following amusing section of an MSNBC interview with Bill Gates:

Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine.

Obviously he’s referencing (or perhaps just thinking of) the Month of Apple Bugs, but come on, seriously: we’ve had about seven consecutive years of Windows bugs and serious exploits. (And many before that as well, but people didn’t try so hard.)

I don’t want to come across as some sort of Apple fanboy: I’m really not. This is just stupid. Some of the other things he says (or implies) in the interview are pretty ridiculous as well (like the bit where Apple actually took all its interface design ideas from Microsoft). I think Bill may need to learn to pick fights he can actually win.