Please don't laugh, Got this in today's Tech Alerts

Microsoft vs General Motors

Below is the content of an email I received last week. The original author of the content is not known and the quotes have not been verified. Even so, it provides food for thought and could be the beginnings of some interesting water cooler discussions.

For all of us who feel only the deepest love and affection for the way computers have enhanced our lives read on.

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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 $25.00 cars that got 1,000 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 (and I just love this part):

1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash, Twice a day.

2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.

3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, a nd reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.

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 reinstall the engine.

5. 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 run on only five percent of the roads.

6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single ''This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation'' warning light.

I love the next one!!!

7. The airbag system would ask ''Are you sure?'' before deploying.

8. 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.

9. Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would hav e to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.

10. You have to press the ''Start'' button to turn the engine off.
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Deb Alloway
Editor

LoL. I love this.

Been laughing since i saw this stuff on www.naijadukes.net

Some funny stuff there although you might need an awkward sense of humor to catch the drifts of most of the jokes on that article

Can't laffing

This guys are really funny. Lesson learnt; chose ur words carefully.

U c, the GM's reply is kinda absurd and sentimental to me. Bill gates was just being logical by his point of reasoning... This reply to bill gates doesnt realy justify and answer the eye-opening question posted by gates... Ofcourse computers and cars ar two different machines. The GM is just being pathetic by comparin the defects and effects of the computer world to the heavy vehicle industry. I personaly thing vehicle creators are not realy vry much up their sleeves. No-harm-done!

LOL @7 and 10. But i know this is a Joke!!!