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To: John Hull who wrote (57270)	6/5/1998 11:25:00 AM
From: Time Traveler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

>>Microsoft and the Automobile Industry<< This article was floating around without a proper author credited to this report. Enjoy this piece. - - - - - - - - - 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 twenty-five dollar cars that got 1000 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 on the road you would have to buy a new car. 3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would just accept this, restart and drive on. 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 re-install 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, was reliable, five times as fast, and twice as easy to drive, but would only run on five percent of the roads. 7. The oil, water temperature and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single "general car default" 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. 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. 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 nor want them. Attempting to delete this option would immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50 percent or more. Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation by the Justice Dept. 12. Every time 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 shut off the engine. - - - - - - - - - On a more serious note, Microsoft is indeed intending to get into the upcoming auto-PC industry Time Traveler

To: John Hull who wrote (57270)	6/5/1998 12:12:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Respond to of 186894

John, thanks for the posts lately, particularly #57271. You took the time to answer four different questions in that one, which I know takes time from the other tasks of the day. I liked the answers, also. Stay with us! Thanks again, Tony

To: John Hull who wrote (57270)	6/5/1998 12:17:00 PM
From: Dave	Respond to of 186894

OffTopic John: When you were IR of Intel, I bet you had to carefully word your posts to such a public forum as this. First question: Did you have to go get approval from your, or a, legal representative for each post when in IR? Next question: Do you do now? Thanks, dave