Here’s at least one reason that BlackBerry should be thankful that Ford CEO Alan Mulally didn’t take over as CEO of Microsoft. Unnamed sources tell Bloomberg that Ford’s Ford Sync in-car communications and entertainment system will soon be powered by BlackBerry’s QNX-based operating system and not Windows. This would represent both a huge win for BlackBerry and a humiliating defeat for Microsoft, which reportedly heavily courted Ford chief Mulally to be its next CEO. Mulally has also-served as a close advisor to Steve Ballmer in the past and helped-the outgoing Microsoft boss draft plans to restructure the company-into a devices and services company. Bloomberg’s sources say that Ford’s decision to dump Windows for BlackBerry for Sync comes at a time

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