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

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 (and I just love this part):

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 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.

I love the next one!!!

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.

10. You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off.
Please share this with your friends who love - but sometimes hate -
their computer!

they say that. but isn't it funny how microsoft is used on most computers in the world!

stuff liek that only happens to people wo don't know how to use computers anyways

stuff like that only happens to people who don't know how to use computers anyways Smile

That's just simply not true.

GM were right... people just accept Windows. Even as the sorry excuse for a solution to completing day to day tasks that it is. They do that because they've never really noticed an alternative and because Macs are expensive.

I'm a competent computer user and yet, through no fault of my own, my copy of Windows takes around 10 minutes to load, my anti virus takes another 10 minutes to check the thing over and then explorer crashes when I try to access my files.
Everyone says "reinstall!" but I think the point is that you shouldn't have to. So I didn't. Instead I now run Ubuntu Linux. I'd recommend it to anyone!! It does (and comes bundled with "replacement" software to allow you to do) everything you probably use Windows for at the moment, it's stable and it has a massive community ready to help when you get stuck. And it's free (which was my main incentive ).

You guys do realise this is a joke right? GM nor Bill Gates actually said this...

Just checking

Actually, Bill did, and a honcho for GM came up with the 'crash twice a day' gag in an interview. The rest is (I think) a Letterman top ten list.

Take care, Ian

Binary wrote:You guys do realise this is a joke right? GM nor Bill Gates actually said this...

Just checking

Yeah i think your right, still funny though

Macs aren't all what they're hyped up to be.