My first 6 years of engineering life, I spent half my time designing and building the flight data and cockpit voice recorders, for Sundstrand Data Control. Those black boxes you look for after people die (I’m proud to say I was on the team that created the very first solid state recording units of both types).
Also was the company technical resource on a few investigations and saw first hand how the FAA/CAA operate. They are extremely thorough and accurate, as when there is a crash, usually hundreds die, and if it’s an aircraft problem, there could be tens of thousands more lives at stake.
Trying to make tech-head points over which OS was running a non-essential software reporting tool (a tool which still operated, by the way) is extremely grisly and in VERY poor taste.
I suggest you tell that to driftdiver and his poor jokes about the co-pilot playing with an iPad instead of doing his check list...
Looking at a serious issue that actually IMPACTED and did have something to do with the concatenation of events that resulted in the deaths of 180 people is NOT grisly or in poor taste. Hiding your head in the sand and refusing to acknowledge that the failings of a product made by Microsoft or Apple or any manufacturer that was inherent IN THE PRODUCT because of a misplaced loyalty or whatever is what is truly grisly.
Unfortunately, the susceptibility of Microsoft products to malware has consequences beyond mere monetary losses in the billions of dollars... malware has and will cost lives... as this tragedy aptly demonstrates. That susceptibility needs to be addressed by the agencies that determine the cause of the air disasters. Yes, the proximate cause of the Spanish air disaster was human error... but safety equipment designed to ameliorate the possibility of human error did not work and was not detected because of malware. That should not be ignored. That is not a matter or "taste." political correctness, or any other social nicety-like offense at it being "grisly." That is the equivalent of putting out an all points bulletin to look for an armed and dangerous murderer and omitting the most obvious aspect of his descriptions, his race, due to political correctness and fear of offending the panty waists in our society.