Total disregard for the truth

When you're richer than God, I guess you stop feeling bad for completely making things up.

Q: Some people hold Microsoft most accountable for security problems, even though software flaws are exploited by "bad guys," as you said. Is that a fair criticism?

[Bill] Gates: Software in general, whether it was from Microsoft or somebody else, was not set up for an environment where all the computers were connected together. So it's not like there was some software that had this security capability and our software did not. As we use the Internet to connect everyone up, then the need to essentially have suspicion and only listen to certain other systems, and if flaws come up to have those updated very quickly, that became a new requirement.

Because Microsoft is the biggest software company and so successful, we should be held responsible for coming up with those things. We've got to push the state of the art, we've got to be the one to solve those problems.

Wow, that's some steaming bullshit. If we just stick with Microsoft for a moment, Windows for Workgroups immediately springs to mind (released in 1992). Microsoft seems to have supported computer networking as far back as 1984 with MS-DOS 3.1.

Even if we bullshit a bit ourselves and say Microsoft didn't think of computer networking until 1992, that's still 13 years ago. How long does it take for Microsoft to identify the need for security, and how long does it take to implement it?