By: Geoff Duncan, April 7, 2011 Microsoft and Toyota are partnering on a global telematics platform for cars...all powered by Microsoft's Azure cloud computing platform. Software giant Microsoft and car-maker Toyota have announced a new strategic partnership that will have the companies putting ¥1 billion (about $12 million) into a Toyota subsidiary to develop a telematics platform for Toyota plug-in hybrid and fully-electric vehicles. Telematics encompasses everything from digital entertainment to driving information like GPS and traffic updates to energy management and other data-driven services in a vehicle—and the whole thing will be powered by Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform. … The Toyota services will integrated with Microsoft’s Bing search engine as well as Microsoft’s TellMe voice application. In vehicles, systems will run on Microsoft’s Windows Embedded Automotive platform. Microsoft and Toyota’s partnership will be separate from the company’s partnership with Ford, which has produced Microsoft Sync, with Ballmer emphasizing that while Sync has been about providing in-car services, their work with Toyota will be about delivering information through a cloud platform.
By: Geoff Duncan, April 7, 2011
Microsoft and Toyota are partnering on a global telematics platform for cars...all powered by Microsoft's Azure cloud computing platform.
Software giant Microsoft and car-maker Toyota have announced a new strategic partnership that will have the companies putting ¥1 billion (about $12 million) into a Toyota subsidiary to develop a telematics platform for Toyota plug-in hybrid and fully-electric vehicles. Telematics encompasses everything from digital entertainment to driving information like GPS and traffic updates to energy management and other data-driven services in a vehicle—and the whole thing will be powered by Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform.
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The Toyota services will integrated with Microsoft’s Bing search engine as well as Microsoft’s TellMe voice application. In vehicles, systems will run on Microsoft’s Windows Embedded Automotive platform.
Microsoft and Toyota’s partnership will be separate from the company’s partnership with Ford, which has produced Microsoft Sync, with Ballmer emphasizing that while Sync has been about providing in-car services, their work with Toyota will be about delivering information through a cloud platform.
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