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Ford Ditches Microsoft Partnership On Sync, Goes With QNX

Posted by Soulskill on from the no-bsods-on-wheels dept.

Freshly Exhumed writes: Ford's in-car infotainment system known as Sync will soon evolve to add a capacitive touch screen, better integration with smartphone apps and, eventually, support for Android Auto and Apple CarPlay in version 3, thanks to a switch of operating systems. After years of teaming with Microsoft, the automobile giant has switched to BlackBerry's QNX, a real time operating system renowned for stability.

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  1. Re:Good news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I had a windows phone, feeling let down by the windows phone/OS comes as a standard feature.

  2. "HAL - Play Genre Rock" by the_skywise · · Score: 4, Funny

    "I'm sorry Dave, I've BSOD'd... my mind... I can feel it going... I... I'm afraid I... qw30@#$%*(@#$... You seem to be trying to drive a car... How can I help?"

  3. Re:Riiiiight. by UnknowingFool · · Score: 3, Funny

    Also if this article is to be believed, Microsoft's system was slow and unintuitive. It appears that MS in all their wisdom used hidden corner touches for functions (like they do in Metro/Modern).

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    Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
  4. Re:Got out of Ford by Yunzil · · Score: 4, Funny

    Given that the stock price went from $2 in 2009 to $15 today, they were thinking they were smarter than you. Apparently they were right.