Adam Albright said:
On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 10:35:48 -0400, (e-mail address removed) wrote:
You got to keep in mind that Microsoft doesn't exactly employ the
smartest programmers, those they have typically only know how to write
bloatware. Vista taking up on average 8 GB of hard drive space, how
nuts is that? If Microsoft build cars they wold weight in at 10 tons
and get 5 miles per gallon. ;-)
ah the memories...
"If Microsoft Built Cars"
At a computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer
industry with the auto industry and stated "if GM had kept up with the
technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00
cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon."
In response to Bill's comments, General Motors made the following
contribution to the debate:
"If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars
with the following characteristics:
1) For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.
2) Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you'd have to buy a new
car.
3) Occasionally your car would just die on the motorway for no reason, You
would have to pull over to the side of the road, close all of the car
windows, shut it off, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could
continue. For some reason you would simply accept this, restart and drive
on.
4) Occasionally, executing a maneuver would cause your car to stop and fail
to restart and you'd have to re-install the engine. For some strange
reason, you'd accept this too.
5) Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and
refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned
the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.
6) You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless you bout a
"Car 95" or a "Car NT". But then you'd have to buy more seats.
7) Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, twice as
reliable, five times as fast, twice as easy to drive - but it would only run
on five percent of the roads.
8) The Macintosh car owners would get expensive Microsoft upgrades to their
cars which would make their cars go much slower.
9) The oil, engine, gas and alternator warning lights would be replaced with
a single "General Car Fault" warning light.
10) People would get excited about the "new" features in Microsoft cars,
forgetting completely that they had been available in other cars for many
years.
11) We'd all have to switch to Microsoft petrol and lubricants but the
packaging would be superb.
12) New seats would force everyone to have the same size arse.
13) The airbag system would say "Are you sure?" before going off.
14) If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what happened.
15) They wouldn't build their own engines, but form a cartel with their
engine suppliers. The latest engine would have 1 cylinders, multi-point fuel
injection and 4 turbos, but it would be a side-valve design so you could use
Model-T Ford parts on it.
16) There would be an "Engium Pro" with bigger turbos, but it would be
slower on most existing roads.
17) Microsoft cars would have a special radio/cassette player which would
only be able to listen to Microsoft FM, and play Microsoft Cassettes.Unless
of course, you buy the upgrade to use existing stuff.
18) Microsoft would do so well, because even though they don't own anyroads,
all of the road manufacturers would give away Microsoft cars free,including
IBM.
19) If you still ran old versions of car (ie. CarDOS 6.22/CarWIN 3.11),then
you would be called old fashioned, but you would be able to drive
muchfaster, and on more roads!
20) If you couldn't afford to buy a new car, then you could just borrowyour
friends, and then copy it.
21) Whenever you bought a car, you would have to reorganize the ignitionfor
a few days before it worked.
22) You would need to buy an upgrade to run cars on a motorway next to each
other.
23) Every time Microsoft introduced a new car, car buyers would have to
learn to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in
the same manner as the old car.
24) Microsoft would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of
Automobile Association Road maps (now a Microsoft subsidiary), even though
they neither need nor want them. Attempting to delete this option would
immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50% or more.
25) You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off.
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