Royal Navy to Run on Windows

[Apple Hobo]

Windows XPerience, whatever that is.

XP = Xtra Problems

 

[cb911]

many thanks Apple Hobo! you've made the list complete.

any others besides ME, NT & XP? we've got to cover all bases here...

 

[Counterfit]

Microsoft is rumored to be working on a product that combines their server, desktop, and mobile platforms into one.

 

[FelixDerKater]

Why not UNIX?

 

[Mord]

ha ha, you're right, it does.

and no matter which version of Windows they' use, it's not going to be very good... lets consider their options:

- Windows Many Errors
- Windows Neanderthal Technologies
or the Windows XPerience, whatever that is.

LOL. did i miss any?

edit>> had to fix the bbcode tags. it's too much tag-ness!!

correction "Windows My Excrement"

damn it, now i have no faith in the military now

 

[wdlove]

Microsoft is rumored to be working on a product that combines their server, desktop, and mobile platforms into one.

That is awesome Counterfit, quite an innovative idea. Thank you for a smile.

 

[thatwendigo]

Either you are very good, or are very lucky.

...or full of it.

A Windows implementation with an uptime of two years is missing critical security updates, patches, component shifts, and basically open to a broad host of rooting attempts. Unless the database servers are completely inaccessible from the outside world, they're only up because someone hasn't found them or they have some ridiculously expensive hardware security (which means that Windows itself isn't responsible for the stability).

 

[Counterfit]

That's odd, I could have sworn I replied to someone else thanking me for that image...

And I didn't make the image, that joke was around back when the Sega Dreamcast was still new! (it's a console that runs Windows CE)

 

[MacSA]

Channel 4 news ran this item on saturday, and according to Microsoft, Windows is "....as secure, if not more secure than UNIX"

 

[Mr_Ed]

Channel 4 news ran this item on saturday, and according to Microsoft, Windows is "....as secure, if not more secure than UNIX"

It is. If the computer is crashed half the time, it's really tough for anyone to break into it and see your sensitive data.

On the subject of Windows version names: I've always referred to Winblows XP as "Xtra Painful"

 

[russed]

Windows Xtra Problems? oops i missed the fact that has already been said. ok then Xtra Pants?

 

[Flynnstone]

I wonder if Windows is the OS of choice on the subs that Canada bought from the UK?

 

[boz2004]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/06/ams_goes_windows_for_warships/

You Brits are sunk

If they're not going with a Mac (which we know saves the world in every Alien Invasion Movie I've seen ) then they could have at least considered LINUX