At a company-sponsored conference in Japan, Microsoft announced that it has finished development of Windows Automotive 5.0. The update is based on the latest version of Windows CE, the CE 5.0 release that came out in May.
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Uhm no offence but do you even know what you're talking about?
Windows Mobile 2003 is WinCE 4.21
and everything From MS thats version 4.0 crashes? so... WinNT 4.0 in the time i used it hardly ever crashed, and my WinCE 4.21 based Mobile phone has never crashed and it hasnt been turned off since getting it 7months ago.
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Worm infecting Windows Automotive 5.0 and spreading via bluetooth. Zombie cars driving off on their own and crashing... details at 7pm!!
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I can see the arguments now...
* Now talking on #WindowsAuto
n00b13> WindowsAuto ruLz0rZ!!!111oneone
daemon> uhh no, AutoBSD is more stable.
metroboy69> MacAutoX has a nicer gui...
tuxboy> LinAuto 2.8.13.90-1-patch-L12345 is less prone to virus'
Uggh!! Here we go again...
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Long time reader...first time poster here.
Picture this, your all ready to head over to your friends house for the big game you go to start your car won't even turn over, you check the battery, and all the regular culprits, the only thing you find is this strange blue LED on you dash console that you have never seen before. You quickly rumage for you users manual as the time to kick off approaches. You find the entry for the litle blue LED, it indicates the your Windows based car has blue screened and you need to call Geek Squad to fix the issue WITH YOUR CAR.
Say it isn't SO :.(
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"Windows Automative does not control anything in the car, it's only for informative display and media functions in the car!!!"
But, it will no doubt be connected to the vehicle network, and therefore has the potential of flooding the vehicle bus and/or corrupting critical vehicle safety functions.
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..."if Microsoft made cars" reference.
http://www.vbrad.com/pf.asp?p=Misc/hum_ms_cars.htm
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You are driving on the busy interstate and suddenly there's a flashing message in your dashboard...!
"Your Windows CE license has expired. Please contact the nearest Microsoft technical support center to renew your license. Your car is going to stop in 5..4..3..2...1...seconds!"
Boom... Bang...Crash!
Windows Automotive has arrived.
Motto: Circa 2005, always renew your car software license even before renewing your drivers license.
License violations can be fatal.
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Now everything you do in your car, what you say, sing, or shout, and where you drive, will be sold by Microsoft to interested agencies. This will include how you drive and this will be sold to insurance agencies.
With invasive monitoring coming on all forms of mass transit, the infestation of the car by Micro$oft is the final piece of the dark design.
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Yours is the best joke til now. 
Seriously now, have you ever tried Ubuntu or PCLinuxOS? They're quite user-friendly, and do replace a MS Windows destop for common tasks, like simple to medium complexity spreadsheet and text documents. Actually, only thing I can't do myself directly is to play games. But for that I have Windows...
Don't forget that MS has years of advantage (and loads of $$ muscle) in developing a desktop OS, and includes what it thinks is needed for the desktop function, and you are using it as reference! And peripheral manufacturers do include easy-to-install drivers for their equipment, so everything seems easy. Try looking undercover and you'll see is not that different, and can even be more complicated that you think it is.
I do agree that the Linux distro scene is a bit fractured, and IMHO that is a negative aspect. It was something like that that 'killed' the Un*x market 15 years ago, when they should have been competitive.
But is also MHO that MS Windows, with some exception to Windows 2000 and XP, did and still does deserve some of it's reputation. And even these two greatly improved versions do have their low points also, and can be unstable, specially with some low quality software installed, and there's quite a bit around. And not talking about the ever abundant security problems. Granted, if Linux distros where widely used, there would be lots more quirky software being available and used, and lots more security problems known, but the security model is simpler and problems easier to control than in Windows, due to a simpler access permission model.
So, don't bash (pun intended) Linux distros cause you have access to an desktop OS that is way more polished and neatly integrated than Linux desktops are (yet). Linux distros have been evolving at huge speeds, compared to as Windows did, and I do think they can be highly competitive in environments like office services. As for home users with no knowledge, well, that is another story. There I can agree with you that Linux distros aren't yet quite ready. But they're getting there.
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What a ton of lame/off topic comments.
Telematics cannot in any way control the car or do anything that could cause an effect to the safety systems of the car. This is by federal law. So all these lame comments about crashes are just pointless and make you look like fools.
Furthermore in cars that have used windows such as the BMW 5 or 7 series, can't remember which it was, maybe both. They suffered problems. People wanted to blame to iDrive, but it had nothing to do with it, just problems in the car regardless that were BMWs fault. There quality as been poor for a long time.
Also, OnStar is not a 3rd party company, it's a GM product, thus why "GM is the only one to offer Onstar on so many models" though they are beginning to license it to other car makers.
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Heh - you say "So all these lame comments about crashes are just pointless and make you look like fools."
And then go on to: "...that were BMWs fault. There quality as been poor for a long time."
I'd say BWM is to you what Windows is to generic_geek then. To much feelings and to few cold facts.
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Sorry.
On topic from now on.
I don't know about Windows Pocket 2003, I only have 3.0 (is it 2000 or 2001 edition?). All I know is that it still crashes.
Now on the bright side. The advantage of such a system in cars, is a standardised (?? MS?) system and interface for in-car systems, leading to better GPS navigation, information when touring, etc.
Now on the dark side. I do hope they don't use it for critical driving systems, or any related systems. I really don't think a Windows OS is up to it. Unfortunately, MS has always been to leaned on the marketing side of things, instead of really producing extremely stable and debugged software. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that you should produce what people need or want, I'm only saying it should be done right!
Personally, I think cars are getting loaded with too much electronics for my taste.
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Linux is best for cars !! See
http://mobile.newsforge.com/mobility/05/04/29/201227.shtml
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