Ford Planning to Drop Microsoft for BlackBerry in Its Car Technology System

I had the pleasure of working in the same building as a company that builds specialized navigation systems for high end cars. They almost always used the microkernel that powers BlackBerry's latest operating systems, QNX, and one of their engineers described it to me as probably the only good implementation of a microkernel to date. He felt the microkernel architecture was very important to the needs of an automobile.

From a hardware standpoint BlackBerry is severely behind the times but their underlying operating system appears to be quite impressive. It's just yet another reminder that the best technology isn't enough to win in this mobile game.

Someone at Microsoft is getting fired, I guarantee it. Also, wasn't Ford having severe issues with its Microsoft implementation in cars?