M$ Computer Crash Causes Airline Problems

September 21st: From Techworld.com. Eight hundred planes had were three hours without communication to air traffic controls due to a massive Microsoft Windows powered server crash. The servers controlled communications with commercial airlines. The lack of controls caused a few close calls between airplanes and forced controllers to communicate with planes via mobile phones filtered through working stations.

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Maybe they should have stuck with the Unix servers that it initially set up on. This is why Microsoft has to have 60 billion dollars in cash, in case something like this happens and someone gets hurt.

good point mike. Let's hope this won't happen again, but with windows you never know.