The British Navy have apparently chosen Microsoft Windows for the computers on their new destroyers.

"Gerald Wilson is a former employee of the company designing the system, who'd raised the concerns of a group of software engineers that Windows wasn't reliable enough or secure enough for such a critical military system.

Most computer users put up with it when Windows occasionally crashes. They've learned how to cope with virus attacks.

Only now has he decided to go public, after all his efforts to alert the defence establishment privately were rebuffed."