Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 20:07:12 -0500

From an Article in Car & Driver.


10 things that would be different if Microsoft started building cars:


1.  A particular model year of car wouldn't be available until the
    following year.

2.  Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you'd have to buy
    a new car.

3.  Occasionally your car would just die for no reason, and you'd have
    to restart it.  For some strange reason, you'd just accept this.

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.  Sun Motorsystems would make a car that was solar-powered, twice as
    reliable and five times as fast - but it would only run on 5 percent
    of the roads.

6.  The oil, engine, gas, and alternator warning lights would be
    replaced with a single "General Car Fault" warning light.

7.  People would get excited about the "new" features in Microsoft cars,
    forgetting completely that they had been available in other cars
    for years.

8.  We'd all have to switch to Microsoft gas.

9.  The U.S. government would be getting subsidies from an automaker,
    instead of giving them.

10. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.