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BMWs hit the road with Microsoft

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Tux:
all i can say is that after seeing how m$ trys to control my computer(and thoughts)i sure as hell wouldnt want it running my car...and remember to register with them our you'll go outside one moring only to find you've been locked out...

Liquidog:
BMW's are awesome cars.  Why they went with Windows, seeing as how it's extremely unreliable - that is a mystery.  If they're going to bother to make the fancy car computer system, they should bother to do some more research into implementing a more reliable OS.  I've heard of Linux/Unix systems running for years at time, without problems.  A poll for everyone: what's the longest you've run a windows system without a marked decrease in performance?  A few days maybe?  What's the longest you've run windows without it crashing?  Using it every day?  Surely not much more than a week.  It's just funny because BMW's are tanks in the automotive world and windows is a go-kart in the OS world.

badkarma:
windows 95/98 will allways crash after 49 days (in the unfortunate event of you keeping it running that long)

read this:

http://web.ukonline.co.uk/eric.price/humour2/0379.htm

Calum:
the longest i have run windows without it crashing is probably about 5 hours. definitely less than 9.

The time i can run windows without noticing a degredation in quality is moot, as it is relative to the state of the system at startup. On startup, my winME has already filled up the RAM with 128 MB of crap. if i use one of those RAM cleaner optimiser programs, it fills it back up within 5 minutes.
often it crashes before the full boot has even completed.

Maybe the whole windows/BMW thing is misreported? maybe they're working with M$ but are using a UNIX operating system?

Such as the famous WINSUX! that OS soon to be brought out by M$ with all the flaws you have come to expect from Microsoft but based on a UNIX environment! (i guarantee this is coming, it's only a matter of time before Microsoft steals this idea from Apple!)

psyjax:
If M$ tried to do the MacOS thing and go with a UNIX core, they would quickly lose market to Linux, OS X, and other better made, more stable, OS's and GUI's. Because when M$ adopts a UNIX standard, then it becomes very easy for things to be ported to and from other UNIX environment. This is agains't M$'s MO. They wan't control over everything so they can milk everyone for cash.

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