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Automakers choose Microsoft as connected car partner
The Official Microsoft Blog ^ | January 5, 2016 | Peggy Johnson

Posted on 01/05/2016 10:19:40 PM PST by Utilizer

When Microsoft talks about mobility, our interest is the mobility of the person, not of any single device. After all, people now want their technology experience to move with them, from place to place and device to device, at home, at work, and on the move.

Nowhere is this more evident than in today's connected cars. People expect their car's computing power to match its horsepower. And automakers are leading the way, bringing mobility solutions to their cars to meet drivers' changing expectations, as well as enhance safety. These automakers see their cars as technology platforms, and they are choosing Microsoft as their partner.

They are choosing Microsoft because we uniquely deliver end-to-end solutions from the cloud, to the device, to predictive analytics, and do so in a way that allows all our partners to innovate on top of their existing systems. Nobody else offers this breadth and depth to the auto industry.

Today from the International CES in Las Vegas, Volvo Cars, Nissan, Harman and IAV announced new details about their partnerships with Microsoft to enhance their connected car strategies. They join Toyota, Ford, Qoros, Delphi, and other companies already working with Microsoft to bring their cars into the mobile-first, cloud-first world.

In the near future, the car will be connected to the Internet, as well as to other cars, your mobile phone and your home computer. The car becomes a companion and an assistant to your digital life. And so our strategy is to be the ultimate platform for all intelligent cars.

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.microsoft.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: autos; carcontrol; microsoft; usoft
Great. Now we have 'doze on cars. Can't wait to see a fullscreen BSOD suddenly making various cars abruptly turn inert when the system crashes...
1 posted on 01/05/2016 10:19:40 PM PST by Utilizer
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To: Utilizer

Gives BSOD a whole new meaning!!


2 posted on 01/05/2016 10:20:42 PM PST by Ray76 (Vote Democrat. Vote Republican. Do the same thing over and over again. Expect change.)
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To: Utilizer

Didn’t think Blue Screen of Death would be taken so literally.


3 posted on 01/05/2016 10:21:08 PM PST by Crazieman (Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
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To: Utilizer

Apparently, quite a few people seem to think that WinDoze on everything is something to aspire to! *gag* *cough*


4 posted on 01/05/2016 10:42:50 PM PST by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the muzrims trying to kill them)
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I am awaiting when SUV’s attack due to software glitch.They already attack and they not even close to sentient. LOL


5 posted on 01/05/2016 10:44:07 PM PST by Nailbiter
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To: Nailbiter

Only if you discount Liberals...

There, they might have an advantage.


6 posted on 01/05/2016 10:46:24 PM PST by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the muzrims trying to kill them)
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To: Utilizer

Taxation of our driving will probably become a very precise science with this technology.
I miss my 1970 F250.


7 posted on 01/05/2016 10:57:58 PM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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That’s what everyone wants, according to the established manufacturers of artificial scarcity and ever more centralized production.

Support open source equipment design and building projects.


8 posted on 01/05/2016 11:47:18 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in "Idiocracy," example of today's politico.)
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To: Ray76

It looks like you’re trying to merge on to a freeway!
\
clippy


9 posted on 01/06/2016 12:20:25 AM PST by some tech guy (Stop trying to help, Obama)
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To: Utilizer

divide by zero works good too!


10 posted on 01/06/2016 1:32:05 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Utilizer

Microsoft’s business plan has always been to sell over-featured crap that customers will want to upgrade. They got the idea originally from American car manufacturers.


11 posted on 01/06/2016 1:48:32 AM PST by Reeses (A journey of a thousand miles begins with a government pat down.)
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>>People expect their car’s computing power to match its horsepower.

Not this person! Keep that crap out of my Mustang! The only computer I want in my car is the engine management system.


12 posted on 01/06/2016 3:51:23 AM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: Crazieman
Didn’t think Blue Screen of Death would be taken so literally.

Today's winner!!!

13 posted on 01/06/2016 5:57:36 AM PST by Quality_Not_Quantity (Democrat Drinking Game - Every time they mention a new social program, chug someone else's beer.)
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To: Utilizer

Windows - Unsafe At Any Speed


14 posted on 01/06/2016 12:06:47 PM PST by Ray76 (Vote Democrat. Vote Republican. Do the same thing over and over again. Expect change.)
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Also gives Windoz a new meaning.


15 posted on 01/06/2016 12:15:33 PM PST by samtheman (Only Trump can beat the Saudi-funded Fraud Machine in the general election.)
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