Bill Gates wanted to look good and impress everyone with his success. He decided to measure the accomplishments of Microsoft against General Motors. The 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 V-8, and it would have a top speed of 10,000 miles per hour. (160,000km/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.

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

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, executing a maneuver would cause your car to 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 it would only run on 5 percent of the roads.

6.-The Macintosh car owners could 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 posterior.

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.