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Richard Choate
Found this while browsing the other day... thought I'd
share it with the ng... enjoy!
HTH,
Richard Choate
Microsoft in Detroit?
At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), 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 $25 cars
that got 1000 mi/gal." Recently General Motors addressed
this comment by releasing the statement "Yes, but would
you want your car to crash twice a day?" and also noted
the following consequences of GM imitating Microsoft:
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 stop and 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 fault" 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.
10. If you were involved in a crash, you would have no
idea what happened.
share it with the ng... enjoy!
HTH,
Richard Choate
Microsoft in Detroit?
At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), 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 $25 cars
that got 1000 mi/gal." Recently General Motors addressed
this comment by releasing the statement "Yes, but would
you want your car to crash twice a day?" and also noted
the following consequences of GM imitating Microsoft:
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 stop and 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 fault" 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.
10. If you were involved in a crash, you would have no
idea what happened.