Windows 2000 is still in use in a microSD factory in Taiwan! It's being used by some pick & place machines and ovens. The machines are rented with a 30-year le

Windows 2000 is still in use in a microSD factory in Taiwan! It's being used by some pick & place machines and ovens. The machines are rented with a 30-year lease. Changing the software will void the warranty. They're not connected to the Internet. My task was to parse the binary data to log machine usage and yield, and post that to a SQL database. There's no .NET framework. I went back to Visual Studio 2005, and coded it all in C++. It was an interesting challenge! I was left with a good impression of how reliable Win2k is though, especially compared to newer OSes (even macOS > 10.9). I hope that some flavour of Linux will break into the mainstream this decade, probably taking cues from the Win2k/OS9 user experience.