Volkswagen announces new partnership with Microsoft

Microsoft Corp. has inked a patent licensing agreement with e.solutions, the software supplier for Volkswagen Group, that will allow the carmaker to gain access to Microsoft’s latest-generation file system - the Extended File Allocation Table (exFAT) technology. The deal was the first one that Microsoft has made within the
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Joe_Limon - 5/10/2011 2:18:35 PM

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if Microsoft is so unreliable why do so many companies that need reliable computers go with it?

atc98092 - 5/10/2011 3:15:52 PM

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@sportsbike

Get real.. Microsoft has respectable reliability, and this agreement is to allow using s particular file system. This has nothing to do with software. As far as German electronics, that too is not near as bad as people make it out. I've had no issues with any of my Volkswagens for the past 6 years.

LexSucks - 5/10/2011 5:13:54 PM

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"if Microsoft is so unreliable why do so many companies that need reliable computers go with it?"

- Because they don’t have any other choice. MS has a monopoly that was gained by forcing out competitors and unfair practices. But that’s another story.

MS builds crappy stuff and they build good stuff. Windows Mobile was MS at its worse. And Windows Vista is also crap (XP was better). MS and reliable software is an oxymoron. Combine that with VW's reliability record? Good Luck.

I’m trying to think of a recent MS product that I actually like using. Outlook 2010 is about it. Can you guys name some MS software that is really nice?

0to60 - 5/10/2011 5:41:42 PM

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Windows mobile is a joke. Im embarrassed to say I still have a phone that operates on it. I am looking to get an android sometime this month...

LexSucks - 5/11/2011 3:02:38 PM

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I replaced a windows mobile phone with an Andriod phone about 2 months ago. Day and Night difference. Android destroy's windows mobile 6.*. I smashed my first windows phone cause it kept hanging and freezing. Sometimes all I'll want to do is make a call and the phone would give me drama. Windows mobile was so awful that I will never purchase another phone with a MS operating system in it. I don't care how good it is. Not after what I went through with the first phone.

ironlungz - 5/10/2011 5:15:02 PM

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So much for the Icar