General Motors 給Microsoft的評價

Bill Gates: "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving US$25 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon."

In response, GM issued a press release, saying: "Yes, but would you want your car to crash twice a day?" If GM had developed the technology like Microsoft, it adds, we would all be driving cars with the folling characteristics:

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 manoeuvre 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 it would only run on 5 percent of the roads.
6. 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 say, "Are you sure", before going off.
10. If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what happened.

雖然這是２００３年的事情，但在２００８的當下，看到這篇報導，很多方面還是令人頗有同感， Microsoft 加油、GM加油。

摘自: July 2003 MIS ASIA