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#2891674 - 10/31/09 09:08 AM If Microsoft Built Cars
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If Microsoft Built Cars

1. Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would have to buy a new car.
2. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would just accept this, restart and drive on.
3. Occasionally, executing a maneuver would cause your car to stop and fail and you would have to re-install the engine. For some strange reason, you would accept this too.
4. You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless you bought "Car95" or "CarNT". But, then you would have to buy more seats.
5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast, twice as easy to drive - but would only run on 5 percent 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, gas and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single "general car default" warning light.
8. The air bag system would say, "are you sure?" before going off.
9. If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what happened.

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#2891823 - 10/31/09 01:53 PM Re: If Microsoft Built Cars [Re: Bono]
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if I woundnŽt know better IŽd conclude that Korea was connected to the internet today.

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#2891846 - 10/31/09 02:41 PM Re: If Microsoft Built Cars [Re: hansundfranz]
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10. Macintosh owners would have to pay for service (packs) for there cars were as MS cars would get free services

11. Mactintosh cars would look ten times better than an MS car but cost 100times more and still run around the same mileage/speed as a cheap MS car
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#2892906 - 11/02/09 09:43 AM Re: If Microsoft Built Cars [Re: Bono]
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Originally Posted By: Bono
If Microsoft Built Cars

1. Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would have to buy a new car.
2. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would just accept this, restart and drive on.
3. Occasionally, executing a maneuver would cause your car to stop and fail and you would have to re-install the engine. For some strange reason, you would accept this too.
4. You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless you bought "Car95" or "CarNT". But, then you would have to buy more seats.
5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast, twice as easy to drive - but would only run on 5 percent 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, gas and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single "general car default" warning light.
8. The air bag system would say, "are you sure?" before going off.
9. If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what happened.


haha
this joke must be 10 years old or so?
I still think it is funny...i think i first heard that above as a sumfink like a response by Ford motor co. to Mr. Gates stating that if cars were like computers in terms of development cycle you would be driving a car that could travel 1000 miles at 300mph on 5 gallons of petrol.
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#2892912 - 11/02/09 09:51 AM Re: If Microsoft Built Cars [Re: Bono]
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That is funny but I remember seeing this joke about 14 years ago.

Microsoft is putting their SYNC mobile system into Ford cars for a while now.



Microsoft SYNC

Seems to be successful from what I have read:

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