Control Alt Armagedon?
When I saw this article – Royal Navy goes with “Windows for Subs” – I got goosebumps.
Bucking the open-source trend, the British Royal Navy has developed a modified version of Microsoft Windows XP and has begun installing it on its fleet of nuclear submarines.
According to the BAE (lead integrator) news release – the new Submarine Command System Next Generation (SMCS NG) “transfers the software applications proven on earlier variants of SMCS to a modern system architecture that uses mainstream PCs to provide the computer processing with Microsoft Windows as the software operating system.”
So at this point – all of the RN’s nuclear submarines have been upgraded with these new control stations. Including – the 4 Vanguard class SSBN’s.
Nuclear Weapons – Trident SLBM’s – controlled through Windows.
Maybe Apple should make a Mac commerical based on Windows doing this. Or else another way for Microsoft to push Vista?
