Comments on: Photo gallery: Microsoft revs car Windows

The software juggernaut that conquered the desktop is racing to get Windows into your next car.

[Not Bugged]

One word:

Dumb.

M$ can't make PCs run and blames their troubles on "third party applications," yet somehow their software is robust enough to be in a car. Not!

Note to Bill: Pull your head out, you're suffocating from your own exhaust. Wait - nevermind, you're the solution to your own problem.

Dumbasses.

[Christopher Hall]

18 words:

You call Bill a ******* and yet you refer to Microsoft as "M$."

The irony is KILLING me.

[dejo]

XXL-Box!

Holy cripes. Look at the size of that thing. You can't even see out
the back of that Hummer! I thought this was supposed to fit
under the backseat, not entirely replace it! ; )

[Earl Benser]

Sorry, Bill....

I don't need Windows (or Windoze) in my computers, my cell
phones, my watches, my TV's, my refridgerators, and definitely
not in my car. There are more than enough alternative sources
for the services of interest to have to involve M$. And I feel a lot
more secure when the M$ label isn't on the core products I use.

So if Detroit gets hooked into M$ based electronic systems,
there is only one thing I need,,,,, UNISTALL !!!!!!!!!!!

[jamie.p.walsh]

To all the morons and haters!!!

1. None of the Windows systems proposed have ANYTHING to do with actually running the car. The car will still drive safely.

2. When was the last time you got a blue screen of death??? Are you runnin Win98 or NT??? If you are shame on you. If you're not, I'd like to see what kind of POS computer you're running XP or 2000 on because in the 5 years I've ran 2000 I've never experienced that. In the 3 years I've run XP I've never experienced that.

3. If you'd suggest a Java run system, let me say this, JAVA IS FUGGIN UGLY. OMG have you ever seen good user interfaces built on JAVA......NEVER. If they are pleasant to see, they usually are the most clumsily written apps. Linux, still ugly but getting better.

[Edited by: admin on Jan 4, 2005 10:06 AM]

[Edited by: admin on Jan 4, 2005 10:07 AM]

[Earl Benser]

How about us disillusioned????

1. One might infer from your first point that if Windows WAS
running the car, safety would become a most critical issue. But,
Windows won't, so the inference is moot.

2. Your lack of experience noted in the second point is curious.
If you've never had any Windows machine screw up on you,
maybe you don't turn them on....????

3. Java isn't the greatest, but it's really no worse than Windows
for small system applications. Can't say about Linux, but it's
potentially a full player too.

The point is that anyone who believes that a car needs some sort
of master OS is running on a one cylinder mindset. Windows is
NOT the answer to everything, despite Bill's attempt to turnit
into a national treasure.

By the way, which is your living option?

BSODs Live on today... ever use BMW iDrive??

You clearly don't use your PC for any hardware intensive puposes. BSODs STILL happen, I had a BSOD last week on a Windows 2000 Server with ALL of the latest service packs installed. I installed an updated COMM driver for Windows Terminal Services. Every time the driver was accessed it caused a BSOD. Had to uninstall the driver to get rid of the BSODs. Bad driver, yup, so what prevents a bad driver from getting into a CE system? NOTHING.

So in the future, when Windows CE does an automatic update through my OnStar connection, my radio and nav fail. But worst of all, my .NET enabled biofeedback monitor fails as well, my blood pressure skyrockets and I rear-end the car in front of me.

If you think this stuff is great, search the net and/or ask the vast majority of BMW iDrive owners, which is Windows CE. It's incredibly difficult to use and just about requires you to pull the car over to safely adjust the radio volume.

last BSOD ?

a few days ago I saw plentiful of blue screens when a user in my network was click-happy clicking on the GREAT WINDOWS f****ing WORLD icon that revolves in the right hand corner of your loving OS and says Windows Updates improve your computer yeah right. He actually installed the service pack 2! and guess what windows won't boot!

[JRippey]

dude, you're actually defending windows??

I can understand when people "have" to defend it because they
have to use it, or there's no software for Linux or Mac. But
c'mon. I've been to several gov't labs the past few years, and
work at one. XP was not even allowed on campus until early
2004 due to security risks. 2000 and NT were the only MS
products allowed by the IT dept. We had our share of XP boxes
cause that's all you got when you bought a new one. (Slower
and less stable than 2000: fact.) That's when we switched our
20 or so machines to OSX and Linux. Measureable results: no
more crashes, no virus, no worms, no attacks, no IP blockages,
much less updates. Anyone with significant usage in all 3
worlds will logically come to the same conclusion, unless they
own significant chunks of MS stock.

[mburson]

Bashing MS

Whether it's this forum or, any of thousands of others, they all have the same group of small minded idiots who presume their thoughts are worth sharing. I've always felt that their shrill words might be made productive by somehow recycling them into toilet paper. You, me, MS, Apple, etc., all share one trait and that is we will make mistakes, unless of course, we sit on our butt and do nothing. The creativity and productivity of Microsoft (and Apple as well) have made a tremendous positive impact on society. They have changed the world for the better. Criticism can be productive but the petty, jealous and small minded tone of so many of the MS detractors is absurd, discouraging and disgusting.

Without all the emotion

As a mother, the first thing I taught my kids about driving is that they are responsible for several thousand pounds of the most lethal weapon thus far invented (people killed by cars vs wars). Why would I want them to play with computers from behind the wheel?

As a software consumer, I note that all the commercial software licenses say somewhere that they are not to be used for life-dependent functions or to control nuclear reactors - admitting that they're not reliable?

As a professional in the field of Software Defect Analysis, I say that commercial software - any of it -- isn't there yet with respect to reliability. Windows CE is supposed to be the least dangerous of the line (yet consider BMW iDrive), but it's still Windows - from the company who taught people to call bugs/defects "features" and laugh about it.

They are clueless, anyway...

What we got here is someone using an OS that isn't really an OS in an H2 which isn't really a Hummer. Further evidence of someone with a lot of money but not a clue as to how to best put it to use.

[JRippey]

Best comment of the lot!

Yep.

[bestman330]

Stop Being Haters!

You Haters trip me out because you all just hate anything & everything that is successfull just because you decided to be one of those sideline doormats watching us creators create & while you pains of the world just hate on everyone just because you don't know how to make anything.

Look if you do not like Microsoft then simply stop crying like a *unk & use some other system, but I love Microsoft-Linux & Mac OS X & I appreciate them all & what they contribute. & I agree with the other pusitive reply guy (or) Gal, you all are probably those people still running windows 95,98 or me & expect the world,look take your cheap AS*es & buy XP & then come tell us about error because I have not gotten a blue screen of death in years,so get with it & get a life & try not to hate so much because all I love is to watch technology comeout no matter who puts it out, I kust love technology & I may be a Tech/Computer geek, but I am a cool one.

Look all you Haters! I am a PC Troubleshooter & my customers come to me with there broken computers all the time & you know what? If just they have read the help files they would not have a broken computer. READ-READ-READ, or do google searches,***NEWS FLASH*** life is not easy-get over it already you cry babies. I get so tired of these people that are technology challenged that are scared of there own shadows, that say computers are so hard, well if you lames just take the time like the rest of us & use your brain & eyes to read a help file aka(Instructions) or to do a google search for what ever problem your having ,then you would probably be allot more content, but you all probably just watch life pass you haters by, well you go ahead & rot while the rest of us enjoy lifes tech world. I have a MS XP Box,Linux Box & a MAC OS X Box & I love them all & they all have pluses & Minuses, but what does'nt in this life, nothing is perfect remember that, that is what makes life so cool rather you no it or not! Lighten up a little bit people.