story.


 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.

 It would have a top speed of 10,000 miles/hour.
 (160,000 km/hr.) 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 $50.00.

 In response to all this goading, GM responded:
 "Yes, but would you really want to drive a car
 that crashes 4 times a day?"

 Then GM responded, if Microsoft built Cars:

 Every time they repainted the lines on the road,
 you'd have to buy a new car.

 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.

 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.

 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.

 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.

 The Macintosh car owners would get expensive
 Microsoft upgrades to their cars, which would
 make their cars run much slower.

 The oil, engine, gas and alternator warning lights
 would be replaced by a single "general car fault"
 warning light.

 New seats would force everyone to have the
 same size butt.

 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.