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> >IF MICROSOFT BUILT CARS: > >1. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you'd have to buy a > new car. > >2. 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, restart and drive on. > >3. Occasionally, executing a maneuver would cause your car to stop and > fail to restart and you'd have to reinstall the engine. For some strange > reason, you'd just accept this, too. > >4. You could have only one person in the car at a time, unless you > bought a "Car95" or a "Car NT." But then you'd have to buy more seats. > >5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, twice as > reliable, five times as fast, twice as easy to drive - but it would only > run on 5% of the roads. > >6. The Macintosh car owners would get expensive Microsoft upgrades to > their cars, which would make their cars run much slower. > >7. The oil, engine, gas and alternator warning lights would be replaced > by a single "general car fault" warning light. > >8. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt. > >9. The airbag system would say, "Are you sure?" before going off. > >10. If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what > happened. Mary Sheehan