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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, and it would have a top speed of 10,000
miles/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 $50.00.
In response to all
this goading, GM responded: "Yes, but would you really
want to drive a car that crashes 4 times a day?"
GM also responded: If Microsoft built cars...
1. Every time they re-painted 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, 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.
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 would only run on 5
percent of the roads.
6. The Macintosh
car owners would 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 Fault" warning light.
8. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.
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.
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