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.
All this raises a number of worrying issues. First up is basic
reliability and usability. Most of us have stared in helpless despair
at the dreaded blue screen; how much worse would you feel if that
wasn't just your desktop gone but your combat display, and it really
was the screen of death?
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