According To Star Trek: Discovery, Starfleet Still Runs Microsoft Windows (theverge.com)

Posted by BeauHD on Tuesday October 3, 2017 @10:00PM from the final-frontier-indeed dept.

AmiMoJo shares a report from The Verge: The third episode of Star Trek: Discovery aired this week, and at one point in the episode, Sonequa Martin-Green's Michael Burnham is tasked with reconciling two suites of code. In the show, Burnham claims the code is confusing because it deals with quantum astrophysics, biochemistry, and gene expression. And while the episode later reveals that it's related to the USS Discovery's experimental new mycelial network transportation system, Twitter user Rob Graham noted the code itself is a little more pedestrian in nature. More specifically, it seems to be decompiled code for the infamous Stuxnet virus, developed by the United States to attack Iranian computers running Windows.

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In a later episode... by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-03 22:20 · Score: 5, Funny

the Klingons will travel back in time to destroy mankind and starfleet by inventing Windows...
captcha: compile. really, slashdot?
Re:Blue Screen of Antimatter containment failure by Austerity+Empowers · 2017-10-03 23:54 · Score: 5, Funny

I don't want it to manage the turbolifts or even whatever they use for toilets. If the best the federation has is Windows, I'm joining up with the Romulans.
Re:Blue Screen of Antimatter containment failure by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-04 02:06 · Score: 5, Funny

DS9 gets a pass. That was a Kardashian station so it had whatever was hip at the time. Yes, I know, Cardassians.