Bill Gates wanted to look good and impress everyone with his success.
He decided to measure Microsoft accomplishments against General Motors.
His comparison went like this:
"If automotive technology had kept pace with computer technology over the
past few decades, you would now be driving a V-32 instead of a V8, and it
would have a top speed of 10,000 miles/hour (160,000 km/h). Or you could
have an economy car that weighs 30 pounds (14 kilos) and gets a thousand
miles to the gallon of gas. In either case, the sticker of the new car
would be less than $50."
In response to all this goading, GM replied: "Yes, but would you eally
want to drive a car that crashes 4 times a day?"
GM further responded: If Microsoft built Cars:........
1. Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you'd have to buy a
new car.
2. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and
you'd have to restart it. For some strange reason, you'd just accept this
and drive on.
3. Occasionally, your car would stop and fail to restart, and you'd have
to reinstall the engine. For some strange reason, you'd just accept this
too.
4. You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless you bought
a Car95 or a CarNT. But then you'd have to buy more seats.
5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was twice as
fast, twice as easy to drive-but would only run on 5 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, engine, 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.
10. If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what happened.
