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https://youtu.be/i77k2H5gJwI?t=34 https://youtu.be/i77k2H5gJwI?t=34 Quite amazing how prevalent Windows XP is 22 years later

tutfbhuf 3y ago
I hope it's either a completely offline computer or a Linux system with an XP theme to make it look more familiar to the users.
- exmadscientist 3y ago
  I worked in a very similar place a decade ago, and probably know a few of the major people involved here. Not that I've kept up with them. The machines 10 years ago were on a LAN with limited access to the global (well, Chinese) Internet. It wasn't great but it wasn't terrible. More troublingly, I would bet a large sum of money that there are Windows XP installs in this lab, and even pirate installs of LabView. I distinctly remember being onsite watching the guy next to me open up a NFO file to get the instructions for the LabView crack. At my station in one of the boxes I had a fully licensed multi-seat institutional LabView DVD set, paid for at staggering cost somewhere in the University hierarchy. I debated speaking up, but decided to just let him keep going on doing what he was doing. That was probably the right choice.
- hulitu 3y ago
  Maybe they patched it. But knowing Microsoft, i don't think so. (There are not enough people in China to patch the holes in the MS OS).
  - dogma1138 3y ago
    You can still pay for patches for Win2K if you pay MS well enough. There is a lot of critical infrastructure relying on legacy systems and Microsoft does have special programs for that. Now whether China can get into them or not is another question since if they get patches they can RE the exploits as well…
mianos 3y ago
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- notaurus 3y ago
  Low effort AI answer
  - mianos 3y ago
    Yes, but is is interesting from a neutrality point of view. To me, I'd say 100% it looks like windows XP. Others would say no. It's a chromatogram display on a chemical analysis system. I would guess it has nothing to do with the subject but just some stock 'high-tech' bullshit footage. The footage could well be from the Windows XP era or some machine that runs it years after XP was meant to be ended. That said, it's my understanding most modern systems like this do have ethernet to export results. I hope they are not running XP.

tutfbhuf 3y ago

I hope it's either a completely offline computer or a Linux system with an XP theme to make it look more familiar to the users.

exmadscientist 3y ago
I worked in a very similar place a decade ago, and probably know a few of the major people involved here. Not that I've kept up with them. The machines 10 years ago were on a LAN with limited access to the global (well, Chinese) Internet. It wasn't great but it wasn't terrible. More troublingly, I would bet a large sum of money that there are Windows XP installs in this lab, and even pirate installs of LabView. I distinctly remember being onsite watching the guy next to me open up a NFO file to get the instructions for the LabView crack. At my station in one of the boxes I had a fully licensed multi-seat institutional LabView DVD set, paid for at staggering cost somewhere in the University hierarchy. I debated speaking up, but decided to just let him keep going on doing what he was doing. That was probably the right choice.
hulitu 3y ago
Maybe they patched it. But knowing Microsoft, i don't think so. (There are not enough people in China to patch the holes in the MS OS).
- dogma1138 3y ago
  You can still pay for patches for Win2K if you pay MS well enough. There is a lot of critical infrastructure relying on legacy systems and Microsoft does have special programs for that. Now whether China can get into them or not is another question since if they get patches they can RE the exploits as well…

mianos 3y ago

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notaurus 3y ago
Low effort AI answer
- mianos 3y ago
  Yes, but is is interesting from a neutrality point of view. To me, I'd say 100% it looks like windows XP. Others would say no. It's a chromatogram display on a chemical analysis system. I would guess it has nothing to do with the subject but just some stock 'high-tech' bullshit footage. The footage could well be from the Windows XP era or some machine that runs it years after XP was meant to be ended. That said, it's my understanding most modern systems like this do have ethernet to export results. I hope they are not running XP.