Microsoft and Ford Combine Products
Bill Gates is using CES to highlight several new consumer-oriented products and to unveil a partnership with the Ford Motor Company to build Microsoft technology into several Ford models.
Microsoft and Ford are to offer a system called Sync, a voice-activated method for connecting cellphones and media players — like Microsoft’s Zune — to a vehicle. Similar systems are widely available in Japanese and German automobiles. Sync, the first major commercial introduction of the Microsoft Auto software, offers hands-free phone dialing and can read incoming text messages through the car’s audio system.
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