It is not just the chipmakers which are seeking to enable intelligent and autonomous vehicles with AI frameworks. Microsoft it taking its pitch too, unveiling a new cloud platform to support enhanced navigation, smart driving and in-car applications. Whereas once Microsoft would have pushed a Windows operating system, probably in tandem with an Intel chip, now both Wintel partners are after similar positions in the cloud framework to control connected cars – but Microsoft is not talking about the OS any more. Peggy Johnson, EVP of business development, said this was not a conventional in-car OS like the auto version of Windows – the real value for vendors has shifted to big data and cloud services, regardless of the in-car…