Microsoft may catch on soon

n8scstm · 02-17-2005, 12:53 PM

Hopefully this notice of our necesity will spur some microsoft software that is more hardware friendly than media center.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/f...automotive.asp

Vchat20 · 02-17-2005, 01:05 PM

i saw this WAY back. very nice, but i have yet to see any cars come with it yet. ill find a link to the one page (unless its in that article) where they had a few demo videos of it.

Vchat20 · 02-17-2005, 03:34 PM

here are the demo videos i was talking about: http://www.microsoft.com/automotive/...connected.mspx

Scouse Monkey · 02-17-2005, 03:54 PM

On dear another thread about it......

http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/show...ows+automotive
http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/show...ows+automotive
http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/show...ows+automotive
http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/show...ows+automotive
http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/show...ows+automotive
http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/show...ows+automotive

And finally, this amusing post about windows in cars....

http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/show...ows+automotive

n8scstm · 02-17-2005, 03:57 PM

Cool. Thanks for the link, even though it's gonna cost me a lot of time looking over it. It's encouraging. There is a lot of stuff on there that I'm gonna need to look over.

cbergeron · 02-18-2005, 01:48 AM

I think that people that drive cars are very afraid of having _any_ Microsoft technology in their vehicles.

There is a major stigma that Microsoft needs to overcome if they want consumers to trust their software products in mission-critical applications like vehicles.

Until they demonstrate that their technology is trustworthy, they aren't going to make any inroads in the telematics industry. Both iDrive and AutoPC are perfect examples of this. I doubt the forthcoming "T-Box" is going to be any different.

-CB