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Public Blue Screens Of Death
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Us XP'ers got really familiar with that loading bar.
shudders in 5400 rpm IDE drive.
Now that's some nostalgia
At a Toys R Us, there was a price check scanner that didn’t boot right and the OS was visible. windowsCE.
That’s exactly what windows CE was for though.
Extended Support for it just ended.
The other day I realized I could plug my ancient busted laptops' hard drives into my computer and dick around with XP again. 3d pinball was and remains the best game of all time
It's got the last "good" version of Windows, why change it?
Nah, it is horrible, especially by modern standards.
Maybe 25 years ago it was good, but that is only if we judge it against other 25 year old software.
If it works, it works I guess
I wonder if we are still seeing windows 10 in 23 years..
Absolutely not. Microsoft has changed their business model. Upgrade or die. They're a cloud company now, with a side of tracking and advertising.
Probably not, the stuff seen here is basically Software that was made to run relatively reliable on these older windows Mashines, nowadays it's relatively common to make such software for custom Linux, as the support is way easier and more reliable.
(i know a company still running shit on MS Dos because the program for their Mashines only runs on Dos, not on anything else and remaking the software would be literal hell)
We will probably still see early 2000s tech 20 years from now.
"I was there, I saw the release"
"okay grampa just take your pills and have a nap"
Definitely.
Although most software we develop now is designed to be upgraded or run on newer OSes. So there is less need to keep running old OSes.
But you can be certain that any new airport or trainstation will still run the same OSes as when they were build. Because it is better to encounter old problems you already know how to fix, than to encounter new problems. Especially if lives depend on it.