If Microsoft Built Cars...

[Harry Palmer]

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 just die on the motorway for no reason;

accept this, restart and drive on.

3. Occasionally, executing a manoeuvre would cause your car to stop and

fail to restart and you'd have to re-install 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 "Car 95" or a "Car NT". But then you'd have to buy more seats.

5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was twice as

reliable, five times as fast, twice as easy to drive - but it would only

run on five percent of the roads.

6. The Macintosh car owners would get expensive Microsoft upgrades to

their cars which would make their cars go much slower.

7. The oil, engine, gas and alternator 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 cars for many

years.

9. We'd all have to switch to Microsoft gas and all auto fluids but the

packaging would be supurb.

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

11. The airbag system would say "Are you sure?" before going off.

12. If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what

happened.

13. They wouldn't build their own engines, but form a cartel with their

engine suppliers. The latest engine would have 16 cylinders, multi-point

fuel injection and 4 turbos, but it would be a side-valve design so you

could use Model-T Ford parts on it.

14. There would be an "Engine Pro" with bigger turbos, but it would be

slower on most existing roads.

15. Microsoft cars would have a special radio/cassette player which would

only be able to listen to Microsoft FM, and play Microsoft Cassettes.

Unless of course, you buy the upgrade to use existing stuff.

16. Microsoft would do so well, because even though they don't own any

roads, all of the road manufacturers would give away Microsoft cars free,

including IBM!

17. If you still ran old versions of car (ie. CarDOS 6.22/CarWIN 3.11),

then you would be called old fashioned, but you would be able to drive

much faster, and on more roads!

18. If you couldn't afford to buy a new car, then you could just borrow

your friend's, and then copy it.

19. Whenever you bought a car, you would have to reorganize the ignition

for a few days before it worked.

20. You would need to buy an upgrade to run cars on a motorway next to

each other.

The old ones are the best