Microsoft’s biggest success in the effort to get their technology into cars so far has been Ford’s Sync platform.
Ford Sync has many voice-activated functions allowing you to control the radio, phone, and other stuff with your voice. However, I wonder if someone on 91.5 Public Radio suddenly yelled some secret “blue screen” command to make all the cars on the highway suddenly die on the road! Then FORD could really stand for Found On Road Dead, hehe.
Microsoft and the car industry did not get off to a solid start back in the 90’s, in fact there were several variations of jokes suggesting Microsoft and the auto industry stay far away from each other!
See this on Snopes.com – “GM Replies to Bill Gates“.
Some genius items like, if Microsoft made a car, you would have to press the Start button to shut off the engine. (In reference to having to go into the start menu to shut down a computer.
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