The Microsoft Car

The Microsoft Car

At a computer expo, Bill Gates reportedly compared the
computer industry with the auto industry and stated, "If GM had
kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would
all be driving twenty-five-dollar cars that get 1000 miles to the
gallon."

General Motors addressed this comment by responding,
"Yes, but would you want your car to crash twice a day?"

And . . .

1. Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would have
   to buy a new car.

2. Occasionally, your car would die on the freeway for no reason,
   and you would just accept this, restart, and drive on.

3. Occasionally, executing a maneuver would cause your car to
   fail, and you would have to re-install the engine.
   For some strange reason, you would accept this too.

4. You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless you
   bought "Car95" or "CarNT." But then you would have to buy more
   seats.

5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was
   reliable, five times as fast, twice as easy to drive, but would
   only run on five percent of the roads.

6. The Macintosh car owners would get expensive Microsoft upgrades
   to their cars, which would make their cars run much slower.

7. The oil, gas and alternator warning lights would be replaced by
   a single "general car default" warning light.

8. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.

9. The airbag system would say "are you sure?" before going off.