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A Synopsis of the Microsoft Car

A Synopsis of the Microsoft Car 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 $25.00 cars that get 100 miles to the gallon.» Recently, General Motors addresses this comment by releasing this statement, «yes, but would you want your car to crash twice a day?» Below is a synopsis of the Microsoft Car: Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you would have to buy a new car. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would just accept this, restart and drive on. 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. 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. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times faster, twice as easy to drive, but would only run on 5% of the roads. The Macintosh car owners would get expensive Microsoft upgrades for their cars, which would make their cars run much slower. The oil, gas and alternator lights would be replaced with single «general car fault» lights. The airbag system would say «Are you sure?» before going off. If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what happened.



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A Synopsis of the Microsoft Car