Comments on: Royal Navy goes with 'Windows for Subs'
The British Royal Navy is installing a modified version of Windows XP on its fleet of nuclear submarines, in a victory at sea for commercial off-the-shelf technology.
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They also most likely are not allowing just any software to run on the system only the programs designed for the application. By removing all of the un-needed item such as Extra Network Stacks, Device detection, ect. they can make the system more secure.
I use touch screen pc's in the industrial world that run windows XP Embeded on a Flash card and some have been running their XP apps for years without a reboot. And if they do hickup you just reboot them and they start fresh as the XP Parttiton is locked and all changes are lost and reset back to default.
The article doesnt mention that these are general purpose computers just that they run a specific task. Windows gets a bad wrap because it it forced to support anything and everything from properly written drives and programs to crap that people program and call applications.
Windows XP Embeded already is working on many War ships controlling things like the control pad for elivators and other onboard systems.
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