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Microsoft to Supply Electronics to Formula 1

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the blue-car-of-death dept.

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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  1. Tagging WTF by distantbody · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Pardon for being off topic, but HTF do I know what others have tagged a story, other than the static 'examples'? I'm not a nube, but maybe I must have missed something...

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  2. Re:Snide Microsoft Jokes Are ... by raider_red · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    SHUT UP, BILL!

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    It's good to use your head, but not as a battering ram.
  3. Re:But will it use their OS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Ultimately it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things in to what you're doing. I mean Picasso had a saying he said good artists copy great artists steal. And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas ehm and I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world."

    "The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste, they have absolutely no taste, and what that means is - I don't mean that in a small way I mean that in a big way. In the sense that they they don't think of original ideas and they don't bring much culture into their product ehm and you say why is that important - well you know proportionally spaced fonts come from type setting and beautiful books, that's where one gets the idea - if it weren't for the Mac they would never have that in their products and ehm so I guess I am saddened, not by Microsoft's success - I have no problem with their success, they've earned their success for the most part. I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third rate products."