At a recent computer Expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer
industry with the auto industry and stated: "If GM had kept up with technology like 
the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 miles to
the gallon."

In response to Gates' comments, General Motors issued a press release stating that
if GM had developed technology liker Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with
the following characteristics:

1) Your car would crash twice a day for no reason.

2) You would have to buy a new car every time they repainted the lines on the road.

3) Occasionaly your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would just
accept this, restart and drive on.

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

5) Only one person at a time could use the car, unless you bought "Car95" or "CarNT".
But then you would have to buy more seats.

6) Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, reliable, five times as fast,
and twice as easy to drive, but would only run on 65% of the roads.

7) The oil, water temp, and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single
"General car fualt" warning light.

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

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

10) 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
a hold of the antenna.

11) GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of Rand McNally road
maps (now a GM subsidiary), even though they neither need them or want them. Attempting
to delete this option would immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50%
or more. Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation by the Justice Department.

12) Everytime GM introduced a new model car, buyers would have to learn how to drive all
over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.

13) You'd press the "start" button to turn off the engine.