The FAA will no longer use Windows 95 for air traffic control. Floppy disks, another tech relic, will also be canned—something that should have happened a long time ago, one would think.

On Wednesday, acting FAA administrator Chris Rocheleau told the House Appropriations Committee that the Federal Aviation Administration plans to replace its aging air traffic control systems, which ...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is finally pulling the plug on its outdated air traffic control systems. How outdated, you ask? Well, are systems that run on Windows 95 and floppy disk ...

With over $12 billion on the table to fix increasingly faulty Air Traffic Control (ATC) systems, all eyes are on the FAA.

The FAA still uses Windows 95 and floppy disks for air traffic control, but that's changing. Microsoft crashed cash registers while testing Windows 95. Windows 11 surpasses Windows 10 in market share.

Acting FAA Administrator Billy Nolen said the agency is now working to upgrade its systems but said most of that work isn’t expected to be finished until mid-2025.

The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday that a damaged database caused a computer outage that forced all flights in the U.S. to halt for hours. The FAA said there is no evidence of a ...

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