Microsoft to Supply Electronics to Formula 1

Yooden_Vranx writes "speedtv.com reports that beginning in 2008, Microsoft will be the sole supplier of Engine Control Units to Formula 1. Apparently, moving to a single supplier is part of the FIA's (Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile) attempts to cut costs. The article does not clarify whether this cost reduction is enabled by cutting back on tech support, what percentage of the engine's power will be required to run all the 'features' embedded in the device, or whether 'crash' will now refer primarily to software behavior rather than driving incidents."

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Re:Everything is theirs, remember?

[jb.hl.com]

You are talking shit. Again. This story has no relation to Vista, and there's nothing saying the OS is a variety of Windows. In fact, it isn't even an OS (at least not superficially), it's an engine control unit. A physical device.

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I get the feeling that if Microsoft employees were all paid to nurse sick kittens back to health, give babies free toys, adopt orphans, personally go and dismantle every nuclear weapon in the world and irrevocably destroy the plans for them and generally turn the world into a caring, sharing utopia where noone wants anything because they already have it, you would be first on the frontlines screaming about M$' attempt to corner the market in kitten healing and saying how Vista will ruin any society that can possibly exist, including historical ones founded before the word "vista" was even coined.
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