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It really depends on the vendor. Big names are at least careful enough to do that. The bottom of the barrel white-label vendors often don't care. I wouldn't be
by astrodust 8y ago
It really depends on the vendor. Big names are at least careful enough to do that. The bottom of the barrel white-label vendors often don't care. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if some of those Windows installations are using pirated keys.
It's perpetually concerning how bad the state of systems like this is. A grocery store near me recently deployed a brand new set of self check-out counters...running Windows XP.
Amusingly the credit card/debit card reader is running Linux and shows the old-school penguin image on boot.
- cimmanom 8y agoI enjoyed seeing Tux on the boot screen of a seat-back in-flight entertainment system recently. And was also amused to see startup sequences for things like MySQL and postfix scroll by.
- mrguyorama 8y agoI don't. That usually means it crashed!
- cimmanom 8y agoThis was during pre-flight when normally all they play anyway is ads that you can't turn off.