Got this as an e-mail

[Arnobius]

Subject: Bill Gates v. GM

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

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 that 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 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, and 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 all 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.
7. The air bag 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 have 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'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off.

[Kireihana]

XD. Nice.

[uc pseudonym]

Humorous, but I would imagine completely untrue. Possibly not entirely, however, because Bill Gates could well have made such a statement. Now, if it were true that would be quite funny.

[Locke]

Yeah, thats an old joke about Win 98 (right?)
Funny either way.

[Noley]

funny

[Mithrandir]

That's a REAL old story. Evidently it's old enough that a group of people haven't seen it. *whoa*

[Mr. SmartyPants]

haha read it at snopes

[Jasdero]

XDD haha

[Jman]

uhhh x3? *cannot find the funnieness*

[Arnobius]

That's a REAL old story. Evidently it's old enough that a group of people haven't seen it. *whoa*

Oh, I'm sure it was fake. I just thought it was humorous enough to pass on

[Azier the Swordsman]

lol

Even if the story is not true, the list sounds about right to me, considering that they managed to describe my computer's characteristics perfectly.

[uc pseudonym]

An argument could be made that this post is inherently doomed to failure, but I will attempt none the less.

uhhh x3? *cannot find the funnieness*

Bill Gates was saying that the automobile industry wasn't keeping up with the computer industry in terms of raw power. The automobile industry countered by pointing out all of the flaws in the computer industry (by applying computer characterisitcs to vehicles, as Bill Gates did). Irony, of a sort.