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[Thomas Beckett <thomas AT tbeckett.com>]

Remember the old joke:

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 accept this.

4. You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless you 
bought a Car 95 or 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 
with a single "General Car Fault" warning light.

7. People would get exicted about the "new" features in Microsoft cars, 
forgetting completely that they had been available in others 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.

Life imitates satire:

http://aardvark.co.nz/daily/2003/n051301.shtml

Crashed Computer Traps Thai Politician
Updated 14 May 2003

Thailand's Finance Minister Suchart Jaovisidha had to be rescued today 
from inside his expensive BMW limousine after the onboard computer 
crashed, leaving the vehicle immobilized.

Once the computer failed, neither the door locks, power windows nor air 
conditioning systems would function, leaving the Minister and his driver 
trapped inside the rapidly heating vehicle.

Despite the pair's best efforts, it took a full ten minutes before they 
were able to summon the attention of a nearby guard who freed the two 
men by smashing one of the vehicle's windows with a sledgehammer.

A report published in the Bangkok Post indicates that the vehicle was Mr 
Jaovisidha's own BMW 520 which was being used while his state-supplied 
Mercedes, was being repaired.

BMW's more up-market 7-series range uses a computer system called 
i-drive which has Microsoft's WindowsCE at its core.

Did Mr Jaovisidha narrowly miss being killed by the blue windscreen of 
death?

And here: 
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=126&art_id=qw1052823065524M361&set_id=4

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