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?"
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"Things That Would be Different if Microsoft Started Building Cars:"

1.  A particular model year car wouldn't be available until after that year
instead of before it.

2.  Everytime they repainted the lines on the road, you'd have to buy a new car.

3.  Occationally your car would just die for no reason, and you would have to
restart it. For some strange reason you'd just accept this.

4.  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.

5.  You could only have one person in the car at a time.  Unless you bought a
Car95 or a CarNT. But then you'd have to buy more seats.

6.  Sun Motorsystems would make a car that was powered by the sun, twice as
realiable, and five times as fast-- but it would only run on 5% of the roads.

7.  The oil, engine, gas and alternator warning lights would be replaced with
a single "General Car Fault" warning light.

8.  People would get excited about the "new" features in Microsoft cars,
forgetting completely that they had been available in other cars for years.

9.  We'd all have to switch to Microsoft gas.

10. The U.S. government would be getting subsidies from an automaker, instead
of giving them.

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

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

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