Windows Automotive Overview

Windows Automotive
Microsoft Windows Automotive is an automotive-grade open software platform that provides carmakers, suppliers and developers with the building blocks they need to quickly and reliably create a broad range of advanced in-vehicle solutions to meet the growing needs of automotive consumers.
Advantages for Automotive Applications
Windows Automotive has demonstrated its stability and reliability in automotive applications in production today. Our partners continue to rely on the Windows Automotive platform to provide the automotive-grade software to power today's automotive infotainment needs. In addition, Windows Automotive is designed to meet key performance requirements such as system startup and application launch times.
Featuring an extensive selection of tools, configuration samples, and guidelines, Windows Automotive can improve productivity from initial design to final testing and tuning. Developers can stay focused on high-level functionality, not low-level code, which means you get more productivity from your development teams.
Designed Specifically for the Automotive Industry
Windows Automotive also features the Automotive User Interface Toolkit (AUITK), a sophisticated graphical user interface framework design tool and compact runtime environment. The AUITK:
  • Enables designers who are not programmers to develop the user interface at a desktop PC.
  • Facilitates the development of high-quality user interface "skins" that connect to the core application program.
  • Eliminates the need to write user interface code in most applications and shortens development time.