[plug] Roger, Red One, you are cleared to GPF!

[Hook]

> Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> > http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2000/0807/news-navy-08-07-00.asp
>
> Quoting from that:
>
> > Officials from Microsoft Federal Systems last week attended an
> > initial design review of the Navy?s future CVN-77 aircraft
> > carrier. The company has been selected to lead information
> > infrastructure development for the ship and to define the
> > overall systems architecture for high-performance information
> > exchange.
>
> 1. There goes the budget.
>
> 2. I wanna be on the other side of any firefight involving those
> carriers. It's all very well having the USS Yorktown freeze up, but what
> happens when Microsoft get to mess with, say, avionics? Even if it's
> only approach-and-landing? A blue-screen on a HUD could be a bit lethal,
> both for the pilot and anyone in his way.

But can you imagine the military response to Wild Bill and his cronies if
they're
responsible for seriously damaging a billion dollars-worth of carrier plus
planes?

:-)

*Redmond* may end up glowing in the dark !!

The Hooker