I thought you would all like this verbal exchange between Microsoft and GM.
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 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 issued a press release stating: 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 in the road, you would have to buy a new car.
3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull over to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.
4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive - but would run on only five percent of the roads.
6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation" Warning light.
7. The airbag system would ask "Are you sure?" before deploying.
8. 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.
9. Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again, because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
10. You'd have to press the "Start" button to stop the car.
Posted by Steve da Wrench (Member # 1301) on :
hmmmmmm, seems to me I read this someplace else a while back! Still funny and true though! Posted by DaddySS (Member # 848) on :
Excellent!!!.....(crash after add reply button hit)
And don't forget - after you've driven 30 miles to get home, the car shuts down at the last minute and takes you back to where you started.
[ 16. January 2003, 02:14 AM: Message edited by: DaddySS ]
Posted by NATESS (Member # 982) on :
that is very funny. and sooooo true.
Posted by agmSS (Member # 853) on :
I recall reading somewhere several years ago that Bill Gates was at a conference speaking to a gathering of business executives when he commented that his company's innovations had made it possible to purchase the equivalent of a 747 for the price of a pizza. A member of the audience immediately retorted that if 747's crashed as often as Microsoft's operating systems, then Boeing couldn't sell a 747 for more than the price of a pizza. Too funny...
I've been a MAC guy all my life, but alas, my work switched from using MACs to PCs, and I had to switch too. I owned my MAC for 7 years before I gave it to my step-daughter and my PC crashed more in the first 30 days I owned it, than my MAC did in the whole 7 years I had it. Posted by Jim Mac (Member # 113) on :
Wow, this is now being reported as fact!!! I remember this as a joke many years ago, even before the internet hit full stride.
I checked the Urban Legends Home Page, and it confirmed what I remember. Here's the link for this particular topic:
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