Britain's brand new aircraft carrier runs on ... XP

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Britain's latest aircraft carrier, the £3 billion HMS Queen Elizabeth was launched earlier this week.  Reportedly the brand new flagship of the Royal Navy is running some (or maybe all) of its IT on Windows XP and will keep doing so until at least 2026, way beyond the deadline for even XP Embedded/POSready.

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According to The Times, journalists taken on a press tour of the Queen Elizabeth last week saw a computer monitor displaying Windows XP logos. It is not clear whether all of the ship's computers are using XP, or just some.

An unnamed defence source told The Times that XP was likely being used because the ship's IT would have been ordered in 2004, when it was still commonplace, but is now laughably out of date.

It is reportedly due to stay in use until 2026, when both the Queen Elizabeth and its sister vessel HMS Prince of Wales will have their systems updated.

 

 

Source : http://uk.businessinsider.com/queen-elizabeth-aircraft-carrier-is-running-on-windows-xp-2017-6?r=US&IR=T

Source 2 : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/27/hms-queen-elizabeth-running-outdated-windows-xp-software-raising/

 

 

 

So to those saying that "if you don't want ransomware etc you should just update to Windows 10", this should indicate that it isn't always that easy.  I'm fairly confident that it's not the price of some Win10 licenses that's stopping them from upgrading.

[Guest lilbman]

If it's not broke, don't fix it.

[Navbryce]

It's not expected to be operational for at least several more years, but that's still pretty sad . Meanwhile..http://www.thefordclass.com/

[Oshino Shinobu]

1 minute ago, lilbman said:

If it's not broke, don't fix it.

Tell that to the NHS. 

[MorganO]

it was designed in 2004, so they probably never upgraded the computer systems also probably all the computer systems were ready before the boat was actually completed

[Zando_]

2 minutes ago, KOMTechAndGaming said:

it was designed in 2004, so they probably never upgraded the computer systems

Yup. 3 billion worth of the latest 13-year old military tech. 

[mynameisjuan]

5 minutes ago, lilbman said:

If it's not broke, don't fix it.

This isnt about it being broke. This is a security hole...a major one at that. 

[MorganO]

1 minute ago, Zando Bob said:

Yup. 3 billion worth of the latest 13-year old military tech. 

indeed, imo they would still have used XP for that authentic feel

[Zando_]

Just now, KOMTechAndGaming said:

indeed, imo they would still have used XP for that authentic feel

So it's basically a time machine where you step back in time to 2004, but then go out on deck and fight in 2017? That'd mess with my head a bit if I tried it. 

[Guest]

The military still have many legacy systems and such that rely on XP. So until they're all no more, XP it is. 

[LukaH]

i feel better about this aircraft carrier running XP, than that airport in France that was (still is?) running windows 3.1.

[Ezzy-525]

Most likely this will be a system heavily modified by the MOD. There's no way they'll leave it open to obvious OS based vulnerabilities in the age of everything being hacked.

[NumLock21]

15 minutes ago, Captain Chaos said:

POSready

 

eh heh heh heh heh heh

uh huh huh huh huh uh huh huh huh

POS ready

 

 

[Prysin]

14 minutes ago, mynameisjuan said:

This isnt about it being broke. This is a security hole...a major one at that. 

only if you connect it to the internet.....

 

if you got access to hardware, not a single fucking system in the world is safe. 

[NvidiaIntelAMDLoveTriangle]

Thank God, it's not running Vista, or it would've been at the bottom of the ocean already.

 

[Monkey Dust]

I guess it's not internet connected, so that reduces the risk greatly. I believe our nuclear weapon armed subs rely on XP too. If it's deemed good enough for our nuclear deterrent why not an aircraft carrier (that fun fact we won't have any aircraft to use with it)?

[zMeul]

11 minutes ago, mynameisjuan said:

This isnt about it being broke. This is a security hole...a major one at that. 

what business does an aircraft carrier being connected to the internet - specifically its core systems

[Grezwal]

This is a country we are talking about there is no way they will let this be hackable to the in home script kiddy.

[Ezzy-525]

Just now, NvidiaIntelAMDLoveTriangle said:

Thank God, it's not running Vista, or it would've been at the bottom of the ocean already.

 

Wouldn't have gotten out of drydock with Vista.

[ARikozuM]

I'm surprised nobody has made a joke about an old OS and an equally old lady.

[Trixanity]

"pay 100 million in ransom if you'd like to fire ze missiles"

[Guest]

16 minutes ago, mynameisjuan said:

This isnt about it being broke. This is a security hole...a major one at that. 

Almost all military systems run XP. 

 

Microsoft makes millions from governments in providing support and development on XP. 

[Guest lilbman]

30 minutes ago, mynameisjuan said:

This isnt about it being broke. This is a security hole...a major one at that. 

Ehh.

 

No offense my man but I'm pretty sure the British government and the people they hire know a hell of a lot more about IT and about hacking aircraft carriers than you do.  Most military systems run off of XP for a reason.

[79wjd]

34 minutes ago, Grezwal said:

This is a country we are talking about there is no way they will let this be hackable to the in home script kiddy.

You're putting a lot of faith in a government....Look at USPS and tell me you still trust governments to do a good job. 

15 minutes ago, lilbman said:

Most military systems run off of XP for a reason.

Because lazy and cheap. 

[Delicieuxz]

I guess it won't really matter which OS their new aircraft carriers run on, if they can't be used.

 

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