Re: Humour de General Motors sur Microsoft (:

[Alain LaBonté <alb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alain,

Voici le texte orginal, en anglais évidemment...


    From the Net...

    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 cars that got 1000 mi/gal."

    Recently General Motors addressed this comment by releasing the
    statement, "Yes, but would you want your car to crash twice a day?"

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

    9.  The airbag system would display "OK" or "CANCEL" buttons that you
        would have to click before it would deploy.

    10. If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what
        happened.

    11. The stereo system will only be able to listen to Microsoft FM and
        play Microsoft cassettes.

    12. To turn on the air conditioner, you'll have to shut the car down
        for two minutes and restart it.

    13. When you call the service department, they'll tell you it's not
        their fault and blame it on the company that made the tires.

    14. To make right turns, you'll have to upgrade to Microsoft Steering
        Wheel 2.0.

    15. If you can't afford to buy a new car, you can just borrow one from
        a friend and copy it.

Jean-Yves [Fortin]