Fun_People Archive
17 Oct
If Microsoft Built Cars
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 95 21:23:47 -0700
From: Peter Langston <psl>
To: Fun_People
Subject: If Microsoft Built Cars
From: George Osner <gosner@ainet.com> (George Osner)
From: Randall Woodman <randallw@ADSS.ESY.COM>
The Top-n ways things would be different if Microsoft built cars.
(drumroll,please...)
1. A particular model year of car wouldn't be available until AFTER that
year,instead of before.
2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you'd have to buy a
new car.
3. Occasionally your car would just die for no reason, you'd have to
restart it. For some strange reason, you would just accept this.
4. You could only have one person at a time in your car, unless you
bought a car '95 or a car NT, but then you'd have to buy more seats.
5. You would be constantly pressured to upgrade your car. Wait a sec,
it's that way NOW!
6. Sun Motorsystems would make a car that was solar powered, twice
as reliable, 5 times as fast, but only ran on 5% of the roads.
7. The oil, alternator, gas, engine warning lights would be replaced
with a single "General Car Fault" warning light.
8. People would get excited about the "new" features in Microsoft cars,
forgetting completely that they had been available in other brands
for years.
9. We would still be waiting on the "6000 sux 58'" model to come out.
10. We'd all have to switch to Microsoft Gas (tm).
11. Lee Iacocca would be hired-on as Bill G.'s chauffeur.
12. The US government would be GETTING subsidies from an automaker,
instead of giving them.
13. New seats will force everyone to have the same size ass.
14. Ford, General Motors and Chrysler would all be complaining
because Microsoft was putting a radio in all its models.
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-=} Randall {=- With code like Microsoft's, who needs viruses???
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George Osner <gosner@ainet.com>
© 1995 Peter Langston