Spanking new $4.5 billion costing aircraft carrier runs .. Windows XP

#5447188

vbetts

Moderator

2017-06-28 15:29

It might need some PAE's enabled to fire missiles...

#5447190

NewTRUMP Order

2017-06-28 15:39

that's great , the army has another toy to play with IT'S THEIR NAVY NOT ARMY. they'd better build a job center here and there or a factory or something , twats 4.5 billion for a f*ckin boat ( that's never gonna be used for anything but cruising ) , and people struggle to have a diner everyday , nice job England

The armed forces are in place so you can continue to whine in your native tongue. Putting food on the table is the same struggle whether the ship cost 10 dollars or 4.5 billion. Serve your country for two or three years and I assure you, your position on the armed forces will change. They landed on the moon with a computer with less ram than your oldest cell phone had. Windows platform is all you need to make the ship go left, right, or in a circle etc.. And when it goes to sea, the sea trials will shake out any weaknesses in the platform and upgrades will be done accordingly.:tomcat:

#5447197

bemaniac

2017-06-28 15:51

My friend works for (and I used to) a credit card protection insurance company and all staff still have windows XP (I asked him when this story came out) with customer support for many millions paid to Microsoft. The UK military has the same agreement. The company I now work for is a FTSE100 company with more customer data than you can shake a stick at and we use windows xp too. When I worked at Experian who hold the credit file of every person in the UK Windows XP was used and is still used.

#5447207

Boneless

2017-06-28 16:03

The armed forces are in place so you can continue to whine in your native tongue. Putting food on the table is the same struggle whether the ship cost 10 dollars or 4.5 billion. Serve your country for two or three years and I assure you, your position on the armed forces will change. They landed on the moon with a computer with less ram than your oldest cell phone had. Windows platform is all you need to make the ship go left, right, or in a circle etc.. And when it goes to sea, the sea trials will shake out any weaknesses in the platform and upgrades will be done accordingly.:tomcat:

Hey, NewTRUMP Order I don't know if you noticed but the cold war is over. You should think about how to defeat crazy people using cars, knifes and bombs to murder english speaking people coming out a pop show, instead getting a boner on the internet cause some polititians got a new expensive toy named after your "Queen" (what are you? a bee? its 2017 ffs...) I could be wrong, but I don't think a US$ 4,500,000,000 english boat running WinXP can help you do just that. If they did, those 20+ aircraft carriers the US has all around the planet should have stop the "crazy people" by now. The difference between you and them is your "native tongue". BTW, my father was in the military for 28 years. I understand the mission they have. I am talking about this boat, specifically.

#5447217

holler

2017-06-28 16:22

pretty sure a militarized version of XP is probably still supported by microsoft anyways. that info is most likely classified.

#5447296

kcajjones

2017-06-28 18:34

What shocks me the most is all these stories of Windows XP machines being used in critical areas. I was under the impression that any company serious about IT would steer well clear of windows when they could have a customised Linux OS for the smartphone cost or cheaper! Not to mention the added performance, security and guarantee that it will do exactly what you want it to do (given its customised).

#5447371

DLD

2017-06-28 22:18

Telephone lines between mainland USA (America) and it's European post (UK) must have turned red-hot by now. BigBadBill is screaming at the top of his butterfly lungs, while trying to explain the benefits of window$ 10 to Theresa May...:biggun:

#5447383

Aura89

2017-06-28 22:57

All MS os-es after XP are unstable, bloated pieces of crap...

Go use DOS then and leave the rest of the logical, progressive world alone.

#5447424

Elder III

2017-06-29 01:14

If those computers are not connected to any outside network it's probably just fine on XP.... if they're using them to connect to the outside world then I would deem that a pretty bad security risk.

#5447426

Mineria

2017-06-29 01:19

Nothing wrong with XP, a ship like that doesn't even require a full Windows OS, I would even guess that they stripped it down and made it more secure too. Big waste of money though, like Britain doesn't have enough internal problems to deal with, war, especially with certain countries, will just make those problems even bigger.

#5447429

Mineria

2017-06-29 01:28

What shocks me the most is all these stories of Windows XP machines being used in critical areas. I was under the impression that any company serious about IT would steer well clear of windows when they could have a customised Linux OS for the smartphone cost or cheaper! Not to mention the added performance, security and guarantee that it will do exactly what you want it to do (given its customised).

You can actually modify XP way more than any Windows that came after it, which means making it rock solid and secure for the tasks it is supposed for. You can't really compare an XP machine used by the military with the average Joe's XP machine. Smaller Linux distributions weren't that great back then either.

#5447450

lucidus

2017-06-29 02:53

I hope its F35's won't run XP too lol.

#5447474

WareTernal

2017-06-29 05:31

Microsoft DOES still support XP for large organizations that pay for it. Lots of manufacturing and medical equipment still runs XP. Just keep away the thumb drives and people downloading free porn, and you will be fine. The ISS was said to have many computers running XP in 2013. In 2008 a Russian took an infected laptop on board and it infected other machines. 99.9% of the time the problem isn't the OS, it's the guy behind the keyboard.

#5447660

Irenicus

2017-06-29 14:38

I know why but i can't say, just certain types of software doesn't play nice with W7 onwards. One would think developing software again from scratch would be better but hey budget cuts.

Not true at all. Anything that ran on XP will run on Win 7.

#5447662

Irenicus

2017-06-29 14:40

In the UK many of the companies still use XP even now in 2017. It tells us that the system is reliable and stable, otherwise they would have changed to windows 7 at least. Changing the OS will require new hardware to be bought and that is why they don't want to make the change, simply because it will cost them too much money and time.

Reliable and stable???!!! :stewpid: That is completely and utterly wrong. Win 7 is more reliable than XP and Win 10 is more reliable than Win 7 was. I know this from experience. They need new hardware?? LOL I don't think you understand how this thing works

#5447668

vbetts

Moderator

2017-06-29 14:46

Not true at all. Anything that ran on XP will run on Win 7.

This is not true. A legacy version of Cisco unity only runs on ME, 2000, XP, and Vista. It is not compatible with 7, 8, 8.1, or 10.

#5447670

Denial

2017-06-29 14:47

https://www.neowin.net/news/despite-what-you-may-have-read-the-royal-navys-new-flagship-doesnt-run-windows-xp

“They [the Queen Elizabeth class] will also be the first ships to be built with a BAE Systems designed, new state-of-the-art operating system called Shared Infrastructure, which will be rolled out across the Royal Navy’s surface fleet over the next ten years. Shared Infrastructure revolutionises the way ships operate by using virtual technologies to host and integrate the sensors, weapons and management systems that complex warships require. By replacing multiple large consoles dedicated to specific tasks with a single hardware solution, the amount of spares which are required to be carried onboard is reduced, significantly decreasing through-life costs.”

It won't use XP when the ship is operational.

#5447676

FookDat

2017-06-29 14:55

Windows XP still better than windows 7, and windows 10 combined... IF you are an IT Engineer you know this... the operating system is based on the software you are running... Learn your tech or dont talk what you do not know... Been building companies and knew technology before there was even Internet and googol was spelled correctly...

#5447958

HeavyHemi

2017-06-30 02:43

Windows XP still better than windows 7, and windows 10 combined... IF you are an IT Engineer you know this... the operating system is based on the software you are running... Learn your tech or dont talk what you do not know... Been building companies and knew technology before there was even Internet and googol was spelled correctly...

That all depends upon your use case. There exist several limitations of the XP kernel that a tech Gawd such as yourself, should be more careful with blanket assertions of superiority. They are nearly always wrong.