Tuesday, 21. January 2003

Topic: - on January 21, 2003 at 4:38:27 PM CET

UK's aircraft carriers run on Windows for warships?
Know we know the real meaning from - Blue screen of death !!??

Last week UK Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon mounted an odd attack on the country's major defence contractor, BAE Systems, claiming that large foreign shareholdings in the company meant that it could no longer be viewed as British. The assault was seen by observers as perhaps being a pre-emptive strike in the run-up to Hoon's potential award of the contract for two aircraft carriers to French company Thales, rather than to maybe-not-so-local player BAE. But Register sources claim BAE's defeat may also save us from a real deployment of Windows for warships.

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