Unfortunately, “Windows for Warships” is not the latest computer game, or even just a bad joke. A recent article in Scotland’s Sunday Herald describes the concerns of a naval software engineer about the British Royal Navy’s use of Windows for combat management software. The capitalized phrase “Windows for Warships” really raised my eyebrows, indicating that this might actually be a common implementation. Further fuelling my fears, a quick Google search for that phrase yields more hits than I even want to think about reading. I think it’s been a couple of years since I read about a billion-dollar US warship that had to be towed back to port after Windows crashed, but I’m too lazy to look up any references to it right now. It’s really scary to see this kind of insanity continuing.