"A recent osOpinion article perked my interest about the Navy's recent decision to use the Microsoft Windows operating system in its next generation aircraft carrier. Two years earlier, a divide by zero error on a Microsoft Windows NT machine left the USS Yorktown dead in the water for over two hours. The sequence of these events forces one to ask the question: why would the government choose the Microsoft Windows operating system despite the known defects and problems? The answer is really quite simple - they do not have a choice in the matter."
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