If Microsoft made cars... In response to Bill’s comments, General Motors issued a press release stating (by Mr Welch himself, The GM CEO): If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics: • For no reason whatsoever your car would crash twice a day. • Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would have to buy a new car. • Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would just accept this, restart and drive on. • 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. • Only one person at a time could use the car, unless you bought “Car95′′ or “CarNT.” But then you would have to buy more seats. • Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, reliable, five times as fast, and twice as easy to drive, but would only run on five per cent of the roads. • The oil, water temperature and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single “general car default” warning light. • New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt. You’d press the “start” button to shut off the engine.