[ Thanks to John Sowa
for this link. ]
“Lockheed Martin is working on the design of the new US CVN 77
aircraft carrier, and Microsoft Federal Systems is to co-operate in
the ship’s information technology architecture. This will, we kid
you not, be based on Windows 2000. Microsoft Consulting Services
will meanwhile chip in with tech support during the ship’s software
design, development and deployment.”
“But there’s a funny coincidence too. The CVN 77 is being
built by Newport News Shipbuilding Inc., and that name may be
familiar to you. Yes, that’s right, a little while back Bill
Gates invested in… Newport News Shipbuilding Inc. He holds
an eight per cent stake. Newport News Shipbuilding is one of only
two companies in the US which are capable of building nuclear
submarines, and has built ten of the last 12 aircraft carriers
commissioned by the US navy. It’ll launch the USS Ronald Reagan
(again, no kidding) next year, and it seems horribly possible the
thing will run Win2k (with SP2?).”