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On topic? Off topic?

Seems this started way back in '97 or '98... some of you might remember
it.

If Microsoft made cars (or motorcycles)....
01. A particular model year of car wouldn't be available until AFTER
that year, instead of before.
02. Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you'd have to buy a
new car.
03. Occasionally your car would just die for no reason, you'd have to
restart it. For some strange reason, you would just accept this.
04. You could only have one person at a time in your car, unless you
bought a car '95 or a car NT, but then you'd have to buy more seats.
05. You would be constantly pressured to upgrade your car. Wait a sec,
it's that way NOW!
06. Sun Motorsystems would make a car that was solar powered, twice as
reliable, 5 times as fast, but only ran on 5% of the roads.
07. The oil, alternator, gas, engine warning lights would be replaced
with a single "General Car Fault" warning light.
08. People would get excited about the "new" features in Microsoft cars,
forgetting completely that they had been available in other brands for
years.
09. We would still be waiting on the "6000 sux 58'" model to come out.
10. We'd all have to switch to Microsoft Gas (tm).
11. Lee Iacocca would be hired-on as Bill G.'s chauffeur.
12. The US government would be GETTING subsidies from an automaker,
instead of giving them.
13. New seats will force everyone to have the same size ass.
14. Ford, General Motors and Chrysler would all be complaining because
Microsoft was putting a radio in all its models.

Well, Microsoft *has* been doing some radio/cd/gps stuff already, but...
what's next?

"Microsoft and automakers Hyundai Motor Inc. and Kia Motors Corp.
announced earlier Tuesday a deal to use Microsoft's in-car software,
which allows people to control music and telephones with voice commands.
The company has a one-year exclusivity deal on the software with Ford
Motor Co. (F) in the U.S., but that expires in November. Fiat also has
been selling cars with the software."



It's a brave new world...

ASSHOLE#104 Len

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"AH#104" <ah104@yourhat.att . net > wrote in message
news:w50Uj.167762$D_3.35959@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att . net ...

> "Microsoft and automakers Hyundai Motor Inc. and Kia Motors Corp.
> announced earlier Tuesday a deal to use Microsoft's in-car software, which
> allows people to control music and telephones with voice commands.
> The company has a one-year exclusivity deal on the software with Ford
> Motor Co. (F) in the U.S., but that expires in November. Fiat also has
> been selling cars with the software."

I remember when "The Osborns" was new and sometimes mildly funny. Ozzy had
that voice activated thingy in his car. You can imagine the trouble he had
with that mumbling shit he speaks. I thought I saw smoke come out of the
dash.

MaGGie

Re: On topic? Off topic?

MaGGie wrote:
> "AH#104" <ah104@yourhat.att . net > wrote in message
> news:w50Uj.167762$D_3.35959@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att . net ...
>
>
>>"Microsoft and automakers Hyundai Motor Inc. and Kia Motors Corp.
>>announced earlier Tuesday a deal to use Microsoft's in-car software, which
>>allows people to control music and telephones with voice commands.
>>The company has a one-year exclusivity deal on the software with Ford
>>Motor Co. (F) in the U.S., but that expires in November. Fiat also has
>>been selling cars with the software."
>
>
> I remember when "The Osborns" was new and sometimes mildly funny. Ozzy had
> that voice activated thingy in his car. You can imagine the trouble he had
> with that mumbling shit he speaks. I thought I saw smoke come out of the
> dash.

I would buy ANY SOFTWARE to understand Ozzieslurmumblebits.
I never could understand a word he said.

Oh wait.. I wouldn't!

Re: On topic? Off topic?

MaGGie wrote:
> "AH#104" <ah104@yourhat.att . net > wrote in message
> news:w50Uj.167762$D 3.35959@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att . net ...
>
>> "Microsoft and automakers Hyundai Motor Inc. and Kia Motors Corp.
>> announced earlier Tuesday a deal to use Microsoft's in-car software, which
>> allows people to control music and telephones with voice commands.
>> The company has a one-year exclusivity deal on the software with Ford
>> Motor Co. (F) in the U.S., but that expires in November. Fiat also has
>> been selling cars with the software."
>
> I remember when "The Osborns" was new and sometimes mildly funny. Ozzy had
> that voice activated thingy in his car. You can imagine the trouble he had
> with that mumbling shit he speaks. I thought I saw smoke come out of the
> dash.

I thought just my car did that... Dash lights first, then turn signals.
Gotta wonder if the Germans used any Lucas parts on these Bugs.

Les