Ford taps Microsoft to handle wireless software updates

Sync 3, revealed late last year, will start to appear in production cars in 2015 and will be offered across Ford and Lincoln's U.S. lineups by the end of 2016.

March 17, 2015 05:00 AM

Ford Motor Co., seeking to beam down wireless software updates to its next generation of cars, has assigned the task to an old, familiar friend: Microsoft Corp.

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