Re:I don't blame the OS per se... (Score 1)

Your comment questions my belief on free speech. Your comment has no basis of fact, just conjectures. Did it ever occur to you that the FAA might not have wanted to spend any more time or money with a more stable solution. I work at Harris and know some of the engineers that worked on that system. If anyone is a retard it's you. I don't know if you have ever work at a large company, but the engineers don't always get to do what they want. The program managers make the system critical decisions. We engineers just do what we are told. So if you want to call the program managers retards, go ahead. By the way, you haven't a clue how the software works. There are so many levels of software from high-level apps to embedded software(which I worked on) that there is no way of knowing where the error occured. You can't imagine the complexity of this system. And the comment to why change from Unix to Windows, ask FAA. The hardware is becoming obsolete because the vendors have stopped making them. Upgrade is the natural progression of things. Yes, I agree that W2K was probably not the best decision, but don't blame the software developers. They probably didn't make that decision, but had to deal with it.