Ford teams with Microsoft on cloud-based platform for over-the-air updates to connected cars
March 17, 2015
Grazed from FierceWireless. Author: Phil Goldstein.
Around three months after Ford Motor Co. chose BlackBerry subsidiary QNX’s technology to power its Sync 3 in-car technology platform, and not technology from longtime partner Microsoft, Ford is now returning to Microsoft. Ford has contracted with Microsoft for the software giant to deliver cloud-based wireless updates to its connected cars.
When Ford chose QNX for Sync 3 in February, the company stressed it would continue working with Microsoft, including on older versions of Sync. Thus, the companies’ new partnership is an indication that there is no bad blood between the car maker and software giant–or at least not enough to derail their partnership…
Sync is the in-car infotainment platform Ford uses for tis connected car, but the new service will be called the Ford Service Delivery Network, which will be powered by Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform. Ford said that the service will let it quickly deliver new connected features to its Ford and Lincoln brands, scale up global availability of services and provide flexibility for future connected car offerings…
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