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    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    SYNC 4 is QNX, the next gen units like the one in the new Lincoln Nautilis is QNX + Android with some Linux on other ECUs. MS is firmly gone from Ford vehicles.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    This is useful information and the depth of your knowledge is impressive. Not that I expect operating system expertise from a car salesperson who has no reason to have any, but my salesperson told me it was still Microsoft. Thank you.

    Suddenly I miss the Flex just a tiny, tiny bit less.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

    There's zero MS in the stack on anything with SYNC4 and newer. Your salesperson is wrong. Even development is largely done on Ubuntu. SYNC 4 has two front ends, one's Qt which has some Panasonic outsourcing baggage, the newer one is web based. The latter is what's in the Mach-e. Since about 2017 all of this has moved in house. Ford hired the whole BlackBerry mobile R&D org in late 2016 - people, offices and everything. It's had an honest-to-god software org since then.

    Your Flex probably had the older SYNC iteration that was MS developed. BTW I'm not sure if it was Windows based or whether it was QNX with MS devs creating the software stack on top of it.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

    Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of ~~science~~ infotainment development?