The automotive industry is going through a massive transformation driven by breakthrough digital technologies connected in autonomous vehicles along with smart mobility services like UBER are coming together to power this transformation microsoft's connected vehicle platform allows car makers to seamlessly integrate the car to the digital life of their customers and deliver a set of experiences that are safe productive and fun imagine your car alerting you to a problem beyond just through a notification it can connect through the platform to a set of service providers and through Cortana schedule a meeting with you automatically based on your availability and the availability of the service provider what we're talking about is cutting-edge connected car solutions the Microsoft connected vehicle platform but it's really five key areas of capability that we've identified telematics and predictive services customer engagement and insight in car productivity connected a task support and advanced and contextual navigation automakers want customization differentiation they want to be able to have a connected car platform that represents their brand and their identity in the space as a platform provider we enable automakers to take those capabilities and create new unique and differentiated experiences Microsoft is here to partner with automakers to help them accurate their own transformation to being digital businesses and deliver to their customers connected and smart mobility services on a global scale this is just beginning we're going to evolve this partnership together and we're going to evolve this technology together as we work on use cases we can't even imagine. Today the Microsoft connected vehicle platform brings together a number of leading-edge capabilities including artificial intelligence and advanced machine learning with our Cortana intelligence suite a global hyperscale cloud platform with Azure productivity with office 365 and Skype and a personal digital assistant with Cortana as the technology partner Microsoft provides a cutting-edge connected car platform while automakers can focus on what matters most to their customers creating new and exciting connected experiences and launching the smart mobility services of the future.