“Volvo and Microsoft will join forces to develop the next generation of automotive technologies, the two companies have announced,” Steve Huntingford reports for The Telegraph.
“Microsoft’s biggest rival, Apple, recently introduced its own in-car connectivity software, CarPlay, which is now available in everything from Fords to Ferraris, and is designed to make it easy to access the apps on your iPhone on the move,” Huntingford reports. “However, this latest tie-up between car maker and technology giant promises to go much further, with Volvo and Microsoft planning to jointly develop self-driving cars and the technology that will subsequently allow people to work on the move.”
Huntingford reports, “Klas Bendrik, senior vice president and chief information officer at Volvo, said: ‘Technology will allow us to achieve not only a more sustainable and crash-free future but also new benefits for our customers and society. Together with Microsoft we aim to pioneer in this field.'”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take:
Who’s running Volvo now, the batshit insane?
Microsoft obviously has it in for Scandinavia!
Who in their right mind would bet their life on a self-driving car made by Microsoft? It’d give real meaning to Blue Screen of Death, that’s for sure.
Microsoft and mission critical do not mix.
(Note: Volvo Car Corporation is headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden. Iit is a wholly owned subsidiary of Zhejiang Geely Holding Group of China.)
SEE ALSO:
Ford drops reputation-scorching Microsoft Sync, enables support for Apple’s sought-after CarPlay – December 12, 2014
Ford plummets to 27th in J.D. Power vehicle quality rankings on Microsoft-developed ‘MyFord Touch’ woes – June 20, 2012
Stung by plummeting quality ratings, Ford to upgrade glitch-prone Microsoft-designed ‘MyFord Touch’ systems – November 7, 2011
Microsoft’s confusing, buggy Sync sinks Ford’s J.D. Power quality ratings – June 23, 2011
When crap collides: Ford and Microsoft team up for in-vehicle operating system – December 29, 2006
Volvo is known for its crash safety features, so it may be a good fit
Microsoft is known for its crashes even with safety features in place.
Has Windows [10] gone past this stage?
http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/2008/06/24/full-text-an-epic-bill-gates-e-mail-rant/
Volvo: The Nokia for a New Generation
Boxy, but good. 🙂
Shit, will I have to sell my Volno?! …and stop thinking of the new xc90?
Volvo run, don’t walk as fast as possible from MS.
Bill Gates poo-poo’d the iPad because he couldn’t use it in a meeting to take notes. Now they want our cars to allow us to ‘work on the move’? All Microsoft thinks we want to do is work work work.
Bill Gates can poo on his own head. Is the cruddy Surface slab of any use taking meeting notes? MS gave up on handwriting recognition within a month of the release of their first touch screen PCs, it was that bad.
As ever, I miss Graffiti handwriting recognition. I was really good at it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7B9q4l0aE_8
Another company Microsoft will drive off a cliff. Redmond needs to back off from the steering wheel.
Microsoft — we will take out Scandinavian companies one country at a time: Finland/Nokia — done! Sweden/Volvo — next! Norway/?? Denmark/???
Two down, two to go.
Except that Volvo has been bought by the Chinese now…!
Who would have thunk it would be Volvo that could make MS crash proof!
The company known for their lack of taste and boxy designs are partnering with . . . wait, which company was which?
I used to love my boxy car – in the 1990s. But I shall be avoiding future purchases. Hell, they’re not even boxy anymore. 😏
it’s dumb for both of these companies to think about building a branded car. they would do better, looking to provide the necessities of life, with something like toilet paper.
apple and microsoft are looking to supply the software cars run on. that makes more sense.
OMFG. Hide your wife, children and pets! Wear battle armor out on the streets! Weld a guard rail around your car! The Volvo Win-Cars are coming!!!
The blue wind-screen of death?
Will there be a Start button?
Because Volvo is safety conscious, and MS likes to make things complicated, instead of putting in a key and turning it, or pressing a start button, this car will probably require about 5 steps to get it running.
Well, guess I’ll just trade my Volvo in for a nice Vulva. LOL!
And how many Google self-driving car accidents have been reported already? Maybe there will be an app that tells us where the “auto”-mobiles are located, so we can take alternate routes while they are in motion.
Please provide a CTRL-ALT-DELETE function, otherwise I won’t buy it ;-P
og. help us. Msft in cars is like Chinese doing all our airplanes. Not safe. Not accountable. Instability. Complicating the already complicated. Plain dangerous. Crazy. Imagine all the constant repairs. Increasing price of cars/planes as IT departments will add to cost.
WTF do you expect from Sweden: it’s always brownnosed Msft. it’s a Msft country. There you go, who still buys anything Swedish, Volvo / Saab and…? That it? Ugly boxy Unsexy. Just as Crazy People (1990) Dudley Moore stated http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099316/?ref_=nv_sr_1.
Sweden should stick to:
• Ikea
• human rights i.e. recognizing Palestine
C’mon MDN, couldn’t find a BSOD blue Volvo to use in the picture? 😀