Britain’s state-of-the-art aircraft carrier, which powered out to sea for the first time last night, has the same outdated software on board that was hit by a massive cyberattack last month.
A computer screen inside a control room on HMS Queen Elizabeth was displaying Microsoft Windows XP — copyright 1985 to 2001 — when a group of journalists was given a tour of the £3 billion warship last week.
Sailors readied themselves for the short voyage into the North Sea for initial trials
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A defence source said that some of the hardware and software on the carrier, which took almost two decades to go from concept to reality, would have been good in 2004 but now seemed rather antiquated.
“Just think about the difference between year 2000 desktops compared with modern units,” he said, noting that the carrier is