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Originally posted by CALM+Dec 3 2003, 01:51 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (CALM @ Dec 3 2003, 01:51 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Hey Goslow-- arent all windows users MS customers? Is that the same co. as CAI?
Anything that requires IE doesnt fly around here. What a pain when I want to download critical updates  (no I dont hate Bill Gates, not at all. I just hate IE!)[/b]
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Wait til ya read this little spot of info, its actually frightening if ya think how many times Windows crashes. and how many times have you upgraded to find out thing no longer work?
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We'd like to have one of our operating systems in every car on Earth,said Dick Brass, vice-president of Microsoft's automotive business unit. Cars with the Microsoft software will speak up when it's time for an oil change. They'll warn drivers about wrecks on the road ahead and scout alternative routes. They'll pay freeway tolls automatically. The software running their brakes will upgrade itself wirelessly.[/quote]
I would NOT want Windows controlling my brakes. I guess this would be a ploy to make ya pay for more stuff, since,
MS Brakes 2.1BETA could stop ya sooner, if you paid for the
MS Plus Pack. Have friends using your car? that will be an extra license fee, as Microsoft will ONLY stop the car with 1 person; the driver, inside it. and rem kids, its beta software, so there is no guarantee you car will even stop.
What happens if you sale you car? can you transfer the MS license over? If you buy a car without the software, will it still work? If battery goes dead, do the brakes also go with it?
when you flip the turn singals on, will you hear repeatedly "
ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO TURN LEFT?" If you drop a new engine into the vehicle, will you have to call for a new Software license, or will the system even work. LOL
Just imagine if you get a virus in that...
read the whole story here.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor.../microsoft_cars