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Did Ford Fire Microsoft?

seasoned_geek by seasoned_geek

There is a rather persistent rumor going around that Ford has fired Microsoft, or at least ended the use of their software in automobiles.  Of course if Ford wants to really get on the fast track they will end the use of Microsoft software on the desktop and every other part of the company.  Does anyone know if this is true?

It won’t be long and I will be in the new car market, probably before the end of 2014.  I would like to make my next car to be made in Illinois if possible.  There is simply no way I’m going to plunk down $30K+ for something which needs a virus scanner though.

I have always wondered where Ford put the ALT-CTRL-DEL buttons on the dash.  Of course we know the old (quite true) story about Microsoft actually making cars.

I guess Ford and Microsoft really weren’t N-Sync.  Wasn’t that a boy band anyway?  Perhaps Ford has finally grown up?

At any rate, once they fully purge Microsoft products from their vehicles they can once again be on the list of vehicles I might purchase.

Roland Hughes started his IT career in the early 1980s. He quickly became a consultant and president of Logikal Solutions, a software consulting firm specializing in OpenVMS application and C++/Qt touchscreen/embedded Linux development. Early in his career he became involved in what is now called cross platform development. Given the dearth of useful books on the subject he ventured into the world of professional author in 1995 writing the first of the "Zinc It!" book series for John Gordon Burke Publisher, Inc.

A decade later he released a massive (nearly 800 pages) tome "The Minimum You Need to Know to Be an OpenVMS Application Developer" which tried to encapsulate the essential skills gained over what was nearly a 20 year career at that point. From there "The Minimum You Need to Know" book series was born.

Three years later he wrote his first novel "Infinite Exposure" which got much notice from people involved in the banking and financial security worlds. Some of the attacks predicted in that book have since come to pass. While it was not originally intended to be a trilogy, it became the first book of "The Earth That Was" trilogy:
Infinite Exposure
Lesedi - The Greatest Lie Ever Told
John Smith - Last Known Survivor of the Microsoft Wars

When he is not consulting Roland Hughes posts about technology and sometimes politics on his blog. He also has regularly scheduled Sunday posts appearing on the Interesting Authors blog.