[obermd]

Please....We don't need anyone to produce a "MS Windows" Automobile!
Between crashes and freeze-ups, we'd never get anywhere!!:1poke:!

Good thing we're not driving Fords. The Ford sync system is a Microsoft product. It's not based on Windows, but still... fftopic: It's interesting to note that according to MS the vast majority of system crashes are third party hardware drivers. You can also see the stability of Windows when running a Hyper-V server. MS Hyper-V will only run drivers written and signed by MS and is very, very stable.fftopic:

 

[obermd]

Good catch on the Windows CE origins. The current version of the Ford Sync is based on Windows Embedded Automotive 7 however. This is a real-time OS that supports the dotNet compact framework and Silverlight for developers. In order to do this MS had to make major changes to the Windows CE kernel and basically develop a new kernel. The Nisson Leaf also uses it. Before commenting on how "old" this OS is, remember that Linux is based on Unix, which was first developed in the 1970s and current versions of Windows are conceptually derived from Digital Equipment Corporation's VAX/VMS OS, also developed in the 1970s.