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Comments: 1 +- Top ten worst uses for Windows-> on Wednesday July 09 2008, @12:23PM bigplrbear
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bigplrbear writes "I found an interesting article revealing the many places that M$ products reside, and what they're used for, ranging from Elevators to ticket scanners-
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"After all these years I am willing to admit that Microsoft has won the desktop and server wars. 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.
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The most stupid use I know of... (Score:2)
... is in the new trams from Crotram.
Seriously, why does a tram need an OS in the first place?
OK, so they have made it all high-techy, with cameras instead of rearview mirrors and a screen instead of a dashboard, but why the fuck do they need Windows for it instead of... well, anything else.
Something industrial, possiby even embedded, for instance. Not WinXP.
Especially since many's the time I've seen those trams towed, whether becase of a BSOD or something else, I cannot say. But I have seen tram drivers