__/ [ Doug Mentohl ] on Monday 26 February 2007 13:58 \__
> 'The Type 45 destroyers now being launched will run Windows for Warships:
> and that's not all. The attack submarine Torbay has been retrofitted
> with Microsoft-based command systems, and as time goes by the rest of
> the British submarine fleet will get the same treatment, including the
> Vanguard class (V class). The V boats carry the UK's nuclear weapons
> and are armed with Trident ICBMs, tipped with multiple H-bomb warheads'
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/26/windows_boxes_at_sea/
And Mr. Security Guru jumps on the easy prey:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/02/windows_for_war_1.html
"And here's a related story about a software bug in the F-22 Raptor stealth
fighter. It seems that the computer systems had problems flying West across
the International Date Line."
Yup. A software bug crashed a plane yesterday. When I first saw it I couldn't
quite determine out what it ran and I didn't think it would be Windows (RTOS
is more likely), so this wasn't mentioned.
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