The Very Worst Uses of Windows

bigplrbear writes "I found an interesting article revealing the many places that Microsoft products reside, and what they're used for, ranging from elevators to ticket scanners." From the article: "Thanks to VMWare Windows is spreading throughout the datacenter. And, of course, there is only one operating system to use if you are dependent on Microsoft apps like Outlook, Word, and Excel. While I have joined the chorus of security folks who rail against the Microsoft Monoculture I still cannot believe some of the uses for Windows. Some of them are just downright silly, some you may claim are criminally negligent." Note: I'm making no claim of criminal negligence!

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[SeaFox]

interesting article revealing the many places that Microsoft products reside, and what they're used for, ranging from elevators to ticket scanners.

1) Are elevators really that complicated they need an entire opertaing system?
2) Elevators???? That gives 'Blue Screen of Death' a terrifyingly true meaning.

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[Annymouse Cowherd]

My school has DeepFreeze'd machines that die literally *all* the time. The real problem is that they all run DeepFreeze locally, and the image is never updated, so they're all shitty WinXP computers with no updates from the past 4 years. And the hardware in them dies all the time but that's probably just because they run Autodesk (fistshake!!) programs all the time