At a trade show in Atlanta some years ago, Bill Gates, President of Microsoft, was quoted as saying:

"If the auto industry kept up with Microsoft, cars would cost $25 and get at least 500 miles per gallon."

Approached by a reporter for a comment, a highly placed auto industry executive replied:

"Yes, but would people really want a car that crashed twice a day?"

That's an old one. Besides, I've never seen winXP crash even once.

(i didn't write this, just grabbed it off the net-archives)

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TOP 10 WAYS MICROSOFT WOULD CHANGE THE AUTO BUSINESS

10. New seats would require everyone to have the same butt size.

9. We'd all have to switch to Microsoft Gas.

8. The U.S. government would get subsidies from an automake-a first.

7. The oil, alternator, gas and engine warning lights would be replaced by a single 'General Car Fault' warning light.

6. Sun Microsystems would make a car that was solar-powered, twice as reliable, five times as fast, but ran on only 5% of the roads.

5. You would be constantly pressured to upgrade your car.

4. You could have only one person in the car at a time, unless you bought Car 95 or Car NT-but then you would have to buy more seats.

3. Occassionally your car would die for no apparent reason and you would have to restart it. Strangely, you would just accept this as normal.

2. Every time the lines on the road were repainted, you would have to buy a new car.


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1. People would get excited about the new features of Microsoft cars, forgetting that the same features had been available from other carmakers for years.