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Christ. There is no excuse for that whatsoever. A live machine?

• FLUX-YOU 9y ago
  >There is no excuse for that whatsoever. Except for budget and non-technical leadership in technical leadership roles
• pjc50 9y ago
  If the software doesn't run on versions higher than XP, then there's no alternative. There's a lot of expensive equipment which is stuck on XP.
  • mercurial 9y ago
    Virtual machines are a thing.
    • pjc50 9y ago
      How does that help? We're talking about devices that need, for whatever driver-related reason, to run on the bare metal. A non-health example: http://www.effectivebits.net/2011/08/to-run-windows-or-not-to-run-windows.html http://www.effectivebits.net/2011/08/to-run-windows-or-not-t...
      • peterwwillis 9y ago
        And medical devices cannot just be modified after they are approved for medical use. Any changes must be introduced by the original vendor (or an approved 3rd party vendor) and put through a barrage of tests and certifications needed to release such a device for use on a human. Those include EMC/EMI testing, QC testing, safety testing, RF testing, clinical trials, regulatory compliance, etc. When you buy a medical device running Windows 3.1, it will run that until it is thrown away or replaced.