LOL, Ford dropped Microsoft from their Sync platform in 2014: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... It's been powered by BlackBerry QNX since. I'm not aware of any active Microsoft car infotainment project, nor have Microsoft talked about doing car infotainment in eons. Ergo, I'm really struggling to see how this is a "coup over Microsoft" unless they're referring to Ford using Google Cloud instead of Azure. But even then, only Google would have been able to provide an end-to-end solution anyway, so if that's what Ford were looking for, Google would win by default. A true coup over Microsoft would be Ford switching to Google Cloud wholesale and exclusively, replacing their Windows client fleet with Chrome OS, and 365 with Google Docs.

LOL "fume?" I have 5 Windows 10 PCs and there's only one non-Microsoft account among them (a legacy one created on a previous Windows 7 installation.) Besides, the best features of Windows 10 depend on a Microsoft account. If you don't want to use the latter, get Windows 10 Enterprise, Server, or switch to Linux or BSD (both of which I also run.)

Can't wait for IT departments to not install these patches and then 1) Blame MS when they're hacked 2) Scream bloody murder at Microsoft's attempt to enable automatic updates.

SiteKey is properly explained to users. Unfortunately, there is no security patch or protection for human impatience and stupidity. There's nothing wrong with the system, it's the users who're at fault. Badly written headline.