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 just accept this.
    1. Occasionally, executing a maneuver would cause your car to stop and fail to restart and you'd have to re-install the engine. For some strange reason, you'd accept this, too.
    2. But that wouldn't work, you'd have to take the engine out, do nothing to it, then put it back in.
  4. You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless you bought a "Car 95" or a "Car NT". But then you'd have to buy more seats.
  5. Sun Motor Systems could make a car that was powered by the sun, twice as reliable, and five times as fast - but it would only run on five percent of the roads.
  6. The oil, engine, gas, and alternator warning lights would be replaced with single "General Car Fault" warning light.
  7. People would get excited about the "new" features in Microsoft cars, fogetting completely that they had been available in other cars for many years.
  8. We'd all have to switch to Microsoft gas.
  9. The U.S. government would be getting subsidies from an auto maker instead of giving them.
  10. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.
  11. The air bag system would say "Are you sure?" before going off.
  12. The steering wheel would be replaced with a mouse and you'd need to memorize the keyboard short-cut for "brake".