MORONS!

[thewayne]

This is unbelievable. Beginning in 2008, Microsoft is going to become the sole supplier of engine control units to Formula 1 racing.

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/05/2357227

Allow me to repeat that. MORONS!

"Well, they had all these copies of Windows ME sitting around, and..."

Comments

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Apparently MS has a partnership with Seimens, so I wonder if the ECUs will simply be rebranded with MS logos.

The thing that bugs me, aside from it being MS, is that MS has zero background in racing or race sponsorship, and then they jump in cold to the highest level.

[silveradept]

This is what happens when you have the money to spend on these sorts of things. And, in a perverse sort of way, this may be Microsoft getting a swipe back at the EU.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

re: MS swipe at EU. Hmmm. Dunno. F1 is pretty much exclusively Bernie Ecclestone, who is a Brit. Brit is only quasi-EU. Interesting thought, though. Could be.