Thread: Bill Gates vs General Motors

For all of us who feel only the deepest love and affection for the way our computers have enhanced our lives, read on...

At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry andstated, "If GM had kept up with technology like the computerindustry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon."

In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating:

If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics :

1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash........ Twice a day.

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

3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.

4. Occasionally, executing a manoeuvre such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.

5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive - but would run on only five percent of the roads

6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed an Illegal Operation" warning light.

7. The airbag system would ask "Are you sure?" before deploying.

8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.

9. Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls wouldoperate in the same manner as the old car.

10. You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off.

LMAO!!

That was a great one!

I like that idea

Oh wow - very timely! I will definitely not be going to Bill Gates for my new car!

So true! (Unfortunately)
Too bad that as consumers we have such few options....

They forgot about a device driver fault. Submit error to car manufacturer and then the error was caused by a wrong device driver was this information Helpful?

Originally Posted by VodaHost

For all of us who feel only the deepest love and affection for the way our computers have enhanced our lives, read on...

At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry andstated, "If GM had kept up with technology like the computerindustry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon."

In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating:

If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics :

1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash........ Twice a day.

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

3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.

4. Occasionally, executing a manoeuvre such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.

5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive - but would run on only five percent of the roads

6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed an Illegal Operation" warning light.

7. The airbag system would ask "Are you sure?" before deploying.

8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.

9. Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls wouldoperate in the same manner as the old car.

10. You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off.

I am guessing you are all for *****? ... MICROSOFT ALL THE WAY! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! !!!!

Good one.

....and the alternatives are: buy an electric car and an ***** computer.

And of course (although curse might be more appropriate) Ford lost $12.7 billion.

Bill,

I just read that in the news paper this morning .. I never liked Ford anyway! Haha! ... WOOO BMW! haha!

Right........and Microsoft's earnings are at an all-time low and would have been non-existant at all were it not for X-Box "loss-leader" sales, based mostly on the protracted delay of Vista (I told you so!). With the retardation of MSN, the only hope to maintain it in any viable means to compete with Google would be to partner with Yahoo! somehow lest it become obsolete in under 2 years.

Again......the consumer, with limited options, can only hope to choose the lesser of evils rather than augment true technological progression.

THAT, in my mind, demonstrates how business evolution is thwarted according to real monopolistic practices.

lol *****, glad they didn't.......don't need the crashes