<div dir="ltr">The headline is misleading in the sense that it implies that Microsoft is getting rid of Windows on the desktop. It appears to me that they only dumping it for car mobile devices in favor of QNX from Blackberry.<div>
<br></div><div>Also, according to <a href="http://www.openqnx.com/phpbbforum/viewtopic.php?t=12333">http://www.openqnx.com/phpbbforum/viewtopic.php?t=12333</a> <br><div><br></div><div>"<span style="background-color:rgb(236,243,247);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Lucida Grande','Trebuchet MS',Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18.200000762939453px">QNX is not a Linux distribution, normal or otherwise. QNX is POSIX compliant. That means that much of the programming interface and many of the utilities are the same. The underlying OS is very different in structure. There is little compatibility for drivers."</span></div>
</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 9:32 AM, juanslayton @<a href="http://dslextreme.com">dslextreme.com</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:juanslayton@dslextreme.com" target="_blank">juanslayton@dslextreme.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Yeah, that link won't help. Here's the lead-in (from Dow Jones News)<br><br>By Mike Ramsey
Ford Motor Co. will begin using a Linux-based operating system,
called QNX, to power its Sync mobile-phone multimedia software beginning
in 2016, ending its use of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows, an official with
the car company said.
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</div><div class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Ford dumps windows, goes to linux<br><a href="https://trading.scottrade.com/quotesresearch/ScottradeResearch.aspx?page=%2fqnr%2fStocks%2fNews" target="_blank">https://trading.scottrade.com/quotesresearch/ScottradeResearch.aspx?page=%2fqnr%2fStocks%2fNews</a><br>
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