Microsoft job posting hints at Connected Car strategy: Azure, Kinect and WP8:
Redmond seems to have more grandiose ideas for
Connected Car than it's let on before, judging from a recent help wanted ad on its site. Reading more like PR for its car-based plans, the job notice waxes poetically about using "the full power of the Microsoft ecosystem" in an upcoming auto platform with tech such as Kinect,
Azure, Windows 8 and
Windows Phone. Those products would use
face-tracking, speech and
gestures to learn your driving habits and safely guide or entertain you on the road, according to the software engineer listing. It also hints that everything would be tied together using Azure's cloud platform, so that your favorite music or shortcuts would follow you around, even if you're not piloting your own rig. All that makes its original Connected Car plans from
2009 seem a bit laughable -- check the original video for yourself after the break.
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