• prettybunnys
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      1 year ago

      That’s exactly what windows CE was for though.

      Extended Support for it just ended.

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    1 year ago

    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

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      1 year ago

      Absolutely not. Microsoft has changed their business model. Upgrade or die. They’re a cloud company now, with a side of tracking and advertising.

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      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.

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      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.