Remember the old joke: If Microsoft made cars....

There were a whole bunch of them, like:

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

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, you'd have to restart it. For some strange reason, you would just accept this...

Well, with American car makers falling on hard times, Bill Gates is saying that the auto industry should use Microsoft technology to help them create cars that can fix themselves and never crash. This brings to mind something about stones and glass houses...