"Lockheed Martin is working on the design of the new
US CVN 77 aircraft carrier, and Microsoft Federal Systems is to
co-operate in the ship's information technology architecture. This will,
we kid you not, be based on Windows 2000. Microsoft Consulting
Services will meanwhile chip in with tech support during the ship's
software design, development and deployment."
"But there's a funny coincidence too. The CVN 77 is being built by
Newport News Shipbuilding Inc., and that name may be familiar to
you. Yes, that's right, a little while back Bill Gates invested in...
Newport News Shipbuilding Inc. He holds an eight per cent stake.
Newport News Shipbuilding is one of only two companies in the US
which are capable of building nuclear submarines, and has built ten
of the last 12 aircraft carriers commissioned by the US navy. It'll
launch the USS Ronald Reagan (again, no kidding) next year, and it
seems horribly possible the thing will run Win2k (with SP2?)."
