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A Service of The Arrow Thursday November 4, 1999 7:52 PM
A Service of The Arrow Thursday November 4, 1999 7:52 PM |
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Microsoft vs General Motors Bill Gates wanted to look good and impress everyone with his success. He decided to measure Microsoft's accomplishments against those of General Motors. His comparison went like this: If automotive technology had kept pace with computer technology over the past few decades, you would ... ... now be driving a V32 instead of a V8, and it would have ... ... a top speed of 10,000 miles/hour. ... Or you could have an economy car that weighs 30 pounds and gets a thousand miles to the gallon of gas. In either case, the sticker of the new car would be less than $50.00. General Motors responded to this goading as follows: If Microsoft built cars... • Every time they repaint the lines on the road, you'd have to buy a new car. • Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason and you'd have to restart it. For some strange reason, you'd just accept this and drive on. • Occasionally, your car would stop and fail to restart and you'd have to reinstall the engine. For some strange reason, you'd just accept this, too. • You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless you bought Car95 or CarNT. But then you'd have to buy more seats. • Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was twice as fast, twice as easy to drive but would only run on 5 percent of the roads. • The Macintosh car owners would get an expensive Microsoft upgrade to their cars, which would make them run much slower. • The oil, engine, gas and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single “General Car Default” warning light. • New seats would force everyone to have the same butt size. • The airbag system would say “Are you sure” before going off. • If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what happened. • And owners would have to answer the question: Do you really want to drive a car that crashes 4 times a day? |
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