Early this month at IFA 2016 in Berlin, Mercedes-Benz announced a new project called ‘In Car Office’, in collaboration with Microsoft, which will entail a more smart productivity features into your ride and that the features are going to be available in Mercedes vehicles by middle next year.
Also, it will add Microsoft Exchange support, work calendar, to-do list and contacts which help your vehicle offer up suggestions about destinations, calls to make and more.
Microsoft has also expressed its interest in bringing Office tools to car manufacturers, like Renault-Nissan. The newly formed strategic partnership will see Microsoft help the automaker develop more connectivity services, particularly through the use of Azure cloud services.
A joint press release from the two companies break it down, noting that it’ll help with creating, securing and transferring driver profiles and settings from one car to another; that it will support productivity software integration into the car; that it’ll provide a route for over-the-air software updates for things like autonomous drive software; that it can help car owners monitor their vehicles from a distance; and more.
As is trending, Nissan-Renault is expressing its intention to update car software via OTA means in the future, which is similar to how Tesla handles updates to its own in-car experience today. Thus, the presence of Microsoft is a way of achieving that purpose.
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