New Electronic Windows OS Brains - From Submarines to Frigates

New Electronic Windows OS Brains - From Submarines to Frigates

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The implementation of Windows operating systems in military vessels of the Royal Navy has seen the platform go above and beyond the call of duty, and Bill Gates' initial vision that involved home desks beyond corporate infrastructures, which was nothing short of a stretch at the time. Royal Navy submarines are no longer the only crafts in the fleet upgraded to Windows OSes, as Type 23 frigates belonging to it will also start featuring Windows among the items in their arsenal. (via TheRegister)

At the end of December 2008, Royal Navy frigate HMS Montrose docked into Babcock, ready for £15 million upkeep operations that involved the implementation of an upgrade consistent with the Royal Navy's newest command system DNA(2).

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May god help us, bill gates has control over the british navy.


But seriously ANYTHING but Windows, I'd prefer a calculator OS over Windows.


****Blue Screen Of Death, OOPS, we blue up Iceland****


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