I just scanned through the various team sites for the entrants in Darpa’s Grand Challenge race. It’s great to see so many corporate sponsors such as: Ford, AMD, IBM, Agilent, Raytheon, SanDisk, National Instruments, BFGoodrich, Rockwell, Trimble, Boeing, Intel, SAIC, Seagate, Caterpillar, ATI, Google (Yes Google!!), Yamaha, Earthlink, Honeywell, and MicroChip.
I see the Virginia Tech team has at least one computer on their vehicle running Windows Hmm. That makes me think: I didn’t see Microsoft as a sponsor. Weird. I must have missed it.