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It's Official: Ford Dumps Windows for QNX

posted by janrinok on Saturday December 13 2014, @05:14PM   
from the BlackBerry-Inc-mops-its-brow dept.

"gewg_" writes:

El Reg reports

As foreshadowed in February, Ford has announced a new in-car entertainment and communications system that will run on BlackBerry's QNX real-time operating system, not Windows as is the case for the company's current efforts.

Ford Sync 3 will offer touch-screen and voice recognition controls. The latter will allow drivers to command both their vehicle and apps on their phone. Siri control is another feature.

The auto-maker's offered a touch-screen system for some time now, but it's widely regarded as one of its weak points. A complete refresh on a new operating system therefore looks like a good move.

• M$ hasn't been dominant for years; GPL versions (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 14 2014, @08:38PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 14 2014, @08:38PM (#125983)

  Microsoft continuing to be the dominant OS

  It would be more profitable for Hairyfeet to sell rides in that time machine he seems to possess.

  More of M$'s cheese-sculpture user base gets nibbled away by the multitude of persistent, nimble FOSS mice every time the aged Borg goes to the store for more cheese.
  Only those receiving bribes from M$ will insist that Redmond's business model isn't obsolete; only they won't note that M$'s technology is inferior.

  ...and it's worth mentioning that the Linux kernel will be GPLv2 until the end of time.
  For starters, tracking down EVERY contributor and getting every one of them to sign on to a license change would require an immense effort.

  ...or, alternately, identifying which code was scribbled by which person, removing that, and writing new code.

  Either way, it ain't gonna happen.

  -- gewg_

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