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Subject:    If MS built cars...

WATCH WHAT YOU SAY........Microsoft Vs General Motors

One has to watch what one says about someone (or some
organization). It might come back to haunt.  At a 
recent meeting, a top Microsoft executive reportedly 
compared the computer industry with the auto industry.  

He stated: "If General Motors had kept up with 
technology like the computer industry has, we would 
all be driving twenty-five dollar cars that got a 
thousand  miles to a gallon of gas."

In response to this statement, General Motors issued 
a press release stating: "If General Motors 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 would have to buy a new car.

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

4.  Occasionally, executing a manner 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.  Only one person at a time could use the car, 
unless you bought"Car98" or "CarNT."  But then you 
would have to buy more seats.

6.  Macintosh would make a car that was powered by 
the sun, be reliable, five times as fast, and twice 
as easy to drive, but would only run on five percent 
of the roads.
       
7.  The oil, water temperature, 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 air bag system would say "Are you sure?" before 
going off.
      
10. 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.

11. General Motors would require all car buyers to also
purchase a deluxe set of Rand McNally road maps (now a 
G.M. subsidiary), even though they neither need them 
nor want them.  Attempting to delete this option would 
immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by
fifty percent or more.  Moreover, General Motors would 
become a target for investigation by the Justice 
Department.

12. Every time General Motors introduced a new model, 
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.

13. You'd press the "Start" button to shut off the 
engine.