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If Microsoft Built Cars...

Posted by michael on from the where-do-you-want-to-go-today dept.

trystanu writes "If Microsoft Built Cars, occasionally your car would just die on the motorway for no reason; you'd accept this, restart and drive on -- at least that was the joke a few years ago. ZDNET reports that Microsoft has persuaded a number of carmakers to use its slimmed-down Windows CE operating system to power a variety of in-car electronics, from navigation systems to music players to information devices. BMW, in particular, has gravitated to Microsoft systems, although the company has announced wins with Honda, Volvo and others as well. Perhaps the recent trapping of Thai dignitaries inside a BMW should be a warning to us all."

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  1. GREAT, THAT FAGGOT "A PROUD AMERICAN" IS BACK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Get out the anal lube!

  2. Re:first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I guess that sound of "ooh" is what you make when YOU FAIL IT!!11!!!!

  3. YOU PEERED INTO YOUR CRYSTAL BALLS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    GRUB once again tries to be funny!!!1!~``1OMGWTFLOLL`~!~@~~

  4. Re:If if if by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You're such a fucking faggot, always gunning for the first post. Go eat shit nigger bastard mother fucking grub.

  5. Re:If if if by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    YEW r teh funnee! U need sex0ring from daddee agan, fagget?

  6. Obligatory "Russia" quip... by Sexy+Bern · · Score: -1, Troll

    In Soviet Russia, Windows is powered by petrol!

    Or something.

  7. Re:Hmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Perhaps the recent trapping of Thai dignitaries inside a BMW should be a warning to us all.

    Of course, the FIRST line of that article is how the problem occured because of an electronics failure, rather than a Windows crash.

    Man, I'm glad that *NO ONE* reads the articles anymore, even the submitters.

  8. Re:hooray for MS by October_30th · · Score: 0, Troll
    there is no reason to use WinCE over embedded Linux

    So having a legitimate company support you over an obscure horde of sweaty hackers who just tells you to RTFM does not count as a reason?

    --
    The owls are not what they seem
  9. FUCK YOU by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    If you're talking about Michael, he happens to like it DRY. So no lube is required.

  10. PARENT IS A TROLL, MOD UP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    GNNA FOREVER

  11. Re:Microsoft security by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Somebody thought this was funny and modded it up? Do you have to be a moron to qualify as moderator here?

    One thing is certain: /. people are not social stars.