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The irony behind this is that Upgrade as a word becomes scary once you've already lost ownership of said devices. We have whole industries that have to rely on
by cookiengineer 1y ago
The irony behind this is that Upgrade as a word becomes scary once you've already lost ownership of said devices.
We have whole industries that have to rely on Windows 7 and self-built Windows 10 images because they can't upgrade into a shitty cloud-prioritizing OS. Microsoft just completely ignored them, essentially alienating whole industry branches.
Try justifying that a Candy Crush Saga download shut down a high oven, wasting millions of EUR in energy costs, for example. And yes, that happened at a steel factory here. They switched to open source afterwards and reimplemented everything from scratch.
Every industry around chemistry, energy, production, factories, debugging... heck, even the damn hospital ... They all switch away from Microsoft because it just doesn't work without internet. Honestly I don't know how a CEO can be so asleep and out of touch at the wheel. But I guess that's just collateral damage?
- esperent 1y ago> Try justifying that a Candy Crush Saga download shut down a high oven, wasting millions of EUR in energy costs, for example. And yes, that happened at a steel factory here. They switched to open source afterwards and reimplemented everything from scratch I'm searching for this but not getting any results. Could you share a link where I can read about it?
- ahartmetz 1y agoI can't find it neither, but "high oven" is properly translated as blast furnace.
- h4ck_th3_pl4n3t 1y agoMaybe OP is talking about this incident? [1] Couldn't find another one mentioning unplanned shutdown or similar. [1] https://www.ssab.com/en/news/2018/08/blast-furnace-shutdown-in-oxelsund https://www.ssab.com/en/news/2018/08/blast-furnace-shutdown-...
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- cookiengineer 1y agoWell, I must have remembered it incorrectly then. Because not disclosing such a technical failure like this would be at least insurance fraud ... right?