Microsoft apps in your Ferrari?

It'll be great when you're going 100+mph on the track, and a blue screen comes up..,

 

This reminds me of something...

I proudly present you the "If Microsoft Made Cars" list

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, and you'd have to restart it. For some strange reason, you'd just 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. Amiga 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. 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 superb.

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 "Engium 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 friends, and then copy it.

19. Whenever you bought a car, you would have to reorganise 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.

 

This should hardly be news to anyone. It's obvious that Microsoft wrote all the F-1 programming.

 

WHAT? Microsoft in an Fcar? These cars are maintenance sensitive as it is, the last thing owners need to be waiting for is a dozen MS Update downloads. SilverOne pointed out the infamous bluescreens, what next?

Remember, Bill Gates owns a Porsche, what is he doing by 'helping' Fcars?

 

Makes the classic and vintage Ferraris more appealing, doesn't it?

 

Its going to add more weight as well.

 

hahaha, i remember this list. it was one of my favorite responses ever, the GM rep really had wit to pull such a comeback against bill gates

if anyone doesnt know the story, this was the GM response after bill gates criticized the car manuf. industry (General Motors in specific) declaring a list saying "if GM made cars like microsoft made computers", etc. ill post a link to the list if i find it

 

Ok, found it. Here's the whole story....

______________________________________________________________
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 =
$25.00
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 over 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 maneuver 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 would operate in the =
same
manner as the old car.

And.

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

 

whatever version it has, a Microsoft car would easily beat a Macintosh car,

 

Macintosh = hardware and software, and nevermind that it utterly kicks the crap out of Windows when it comes to all the things that require serious power. IE image editing, 3d garphics, etc... etc...

Windows is good for two things, personal crap (word, email, surfing the web) and playing games. Everything else is done better by either Macintosh or Linux.

For further information, please visit

Top Ten Reasons Why Windows bloody well SUCKS

 

I'd be willing to bet he has a lot of cars the public doesn't know of, including a pretty nice Ferrari in the mix.

 

So, Windows would be better then Mac if used in a car!

 

No. Windows, as stated is good for two things, personal crap (word, email and the internet) and playing games. Driving your car is neither of those. Nevermind that Linux is far, far more reliable than Windows.