Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996

Subject: If Microsoft built cars..... (fwd)



The Top 15 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 die for NO apparent reason and you would

   have to restart it.  Strangely, you would just accept this as normal.



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 ten more

   seats and a new engine.



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 and five times as fast, but only ran on 5% of the roads.



7. The oil, alternator, gas and engine warning lights would be replaced

   with a single "General Car Fault" warning light.



8. People would get excited about 'new' features of the latest Microsoft

   cars, forgetting completely that these same features had been available

   from other car makers for years.



9. We would still be waiting on the "6000 sux 58'" model to come out.



10. We would 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 would require 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.



15. The U.S. government would be forced to rebuild all of the roads for

    Microsoft cars; they will drive on the old roads, but they run very

    slowly.