[NMLUG] Microsoft software implicated in air traffic shutdown

[Don at Silver-Lynx.com (Don Wilde)]

Moses Gold wrote:
> another victory for the infinite-monied marketing steamroller.  my question is
> doesn't such a task fit the definition of 'mission critical' and, if so, why
> doesn't the lack of continuous operation capability disqualify it from meeting
> a 'mission critical' standard for software performance? 

You would think so. But then, we live in a world where ongoing war is 
peace and morons get to Push The Big Red Button.

Actually, my (limited) experience with military electronics is that it's 
loaded with such gotchas. Not usually so glaring as that, but there are 
many 'mission critical' systems that "require" ongoing service contracts 
for "updates" where they casually reset them to cover for memory leakage 
et al.

The same is true in health care electronics. Nobody meets the standards, 
but stuff that hiccups is often in use.
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