If Microsoft were to make a car

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Colin Kemp 7K76 BNR

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 Mar 04 19:57:00 1996

 To:          Colin (C.W.)  Kemp                 (BNR)      Dept 7K76   SKY
              John (J.A.)  Posavad               (BNR)      Dept 7K76   SKY
              Holly (H.A.)  Armstrong            (BNR)      Dept 7K76   SKY
              Tim (T.J.)  Creamer                (BNR)      Dept 7K74   SKY
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 Subject:     fw:If Microsoft were to make a car (fwd)

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> 
> >Ten Things That Would Be Different if Microsoft Started Building Cars
> >
> >1.   A particular model year of car wouldn't be available until after
> >that year instead of before it.
> >
> >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 powered by the sun,
> >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 by a single "General Car Fault" warning light.
> >
> >7.   People would get excited about "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.
> >
> >
>