Need to upgrade Windows XP installation - please help

[growingvegetables]

The Windows for Submarines programme is an example of one of the many areas where Microsoft works in partnership with the MOD to ensure that our products have the resilience, security and communications efficiency required to operate effectively in challenging military environments.

That was 2008.

Britain's fleet of missile submarines, HMS Vanguard, Victorious, Vigilant, and Vengeance, are four of the deadliest ships ever built .... provide the UK's entire nuclear deterrent. Each nuclear-powered submarine has up to eight Trident II missiles and a total of 40 nuclear warheads. ... The four submarines have just one critical flaw: They all run Windows XP.

....... in 2017?

Thank you, News Quiz, for that little nugget of information.

 

[Blue Hills]

cripes - I abandoned windows after my Win 8 refused to update to 10 as it was supposed to.

Fraud.

Now on a chromebook which is way cheaper, runs way better.

Though I am aware that I've sold my soul to the dodgy google.

 

[Flying Dodo]

The ATM network still runs on Windows XP (used to be NT).

 

[marinyork]

I know the feeling. Current IT contract is for windows XP.

My old employer uses XP still on the whole which surprises a lot of people.

 

[Lee_M]

I've just updated my clients desktop estate where everything was XP. It's not unusual.
Interestingly, when I worked on the submarine command systems they were bespoke operating systems with a unix front end, so I wouldnt necessarily believe the important things are running Windows of any flavour

 

[Rezillo]

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/...t_on_queen_elizabeth_class_aircraft_carriers/

 

[gbb]

At a much lower technological level tbf, but some of our machinery suppliers labelling communications systems still work on, and favour XP because it's such a stable platform apparently.

 

[Drago]

They aren't networked to the outside world so could happily run XP indefinitely.

 

[Blue Hills]

They aren't networked to the outside world so could happily run XP indefinitely.

Yes, i did wonder about this important point.

 

[irw]

To be fair, as stated above, it's pretty unlikely that the on-board systems talk to the wider internet!

Pretty lucky really, otherwise chances are some poor unsuspecting Cadet would have been duped into clicking the 'upgrade me to Windows 10' button- it's hard enough to find Control Panel on that, let alone the option to fire a nuclear missile...

 

[PeteXXX]

Bring back GEM desktop, that's what I say!

 

[irw]

@growingvegetables , maybe, as the bearer of this terrible news, you could tell us why the submarines need to be running a newer operating system? It's a bit of an oversimplification, but as far as I can work out, you could do most of the important stuff with a command line

>Tube_1_Target: XXX.XXX XX, YYY.YYY YY
>Tube_1_FIRE
Are you sure you would like to FIRE Tube_1? Y/N?
>Y
...

 

[growingvegetables]

@growingvegetables , maybe, as the bearer of this terrible news, you could tell us why the submarines need to be running a newer operating system? It's a bit of an oversimplification, ...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...n-cover-up-claims-labour-urges-investigations

 

[irw]

Ah...I see...with such an informed answer, you must work for Microsoft Technical Support!

 

[tyred]

Is it not the case that mission critical stuff where failures can prove deadly always used technology a few generations older as it has been tried and tested?