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Story: Microsoft software implicated in air traffic shutdown

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Regardless of whether or not a microsoft operating system could be held liable for aircraft falling from the ai, or a third party software riding on top of it, It does appear that when you mention reboot that it truly was due to a windows operating system. Why in the world would anyone with any sense at all use a windows operating system for air traffic control?

A thought. If windows on your home computer needs rebooted periodically due to it's issues with .... well ... everything, when windows needs rebooted after almost every software install, why in the hell would it be considered for anything other than non-critical applications? Do we remember what happened when Bank of America decided to use a winxp embeded devices in their machines?

This is never going to stop. Replacing known good with known bad doesn't work. Unix, Linux, BSD, or anything other than windows or a microsoft product should be used for mission critical environments. This world is turning into windows fools and the governments are allowing it.

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