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Ford Dumping Windows For QNX In New Vehicles

Posted by Unknown on from the back-to-the-classics dept.

innocent_white_lamb writes "Ford has announced that their in-vehicle technology called Sync will be based on Blackberry's QNX operating system and will no longer use Microsoft Windows. My own 2013 Ford Escape has the Windows-based Sync system. I wonder if they will issue an update to change it to QNX." Anonymous sources inside Ford cited reliability problems with Windows and lower licensing costs for the switch to the classic realtime OS.

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  1. Re:Having used both by peragrin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's why i buy cars built in America, Like Honda, toyota, and Nissan.

    You think I am joking. those three companies build more cars in the USA than Ford, GM and Chrylser.

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