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seeing Windows 8 called old really did some psychic damage to me. If it's not a secret, what kind of customers do you have? Is it some industrial stuff as usual

seeing Windows 8 called old really did some psychic damage to me. If it's not a secret, what kind of customers do you have? Is it some industrial stuff as usual?

vbezhenar 11mo ago
Medicine. I'm living in third world country and probably they don't have enough money to upgrade often, they just install something and work with it for many years. Works for them, I guess, I often see computers with 2-4 GB RAM and some ancient Celeron.
- dijit 11mo ago
  Not to be glib, but medical equipment in the first world is the same.
  - inferiorhuman 11mo ago
    Surely it uses MSVCRT though.
    - amiga386 11mo ago
      I can't speak for medical equipment, but lab equipment in testing labs (including the ones in hospitals) needs to be calibrated correctly and run exactly to the vendor's specifications. They will continue to sign off on old hardware they continue to support, even if it's actually a Pentium 3 running Windows 95 with the expensive lab device attached via the parallel port. If you try and switch out the host computer to something newer, the software may or may not work, but you will definitely fail your audits for changing software without the vendor's approval. For their part, the vendor supports you buying the new version of their device for a few million quid and it now runs via USB attached to a Windows 10 computer running their proprietary software.
      - dwattttt 11mo ago
        Since it took me a minute to realise... glib vs MSVCRT are the keywords to the joke.
- trollbridge 11mo ago
  My dentist had a system running Windows XP for X-rays until 2 years ago. The vendor stopped supporting it (they technically still did, but would dodge replacing parts, etc.) so I eventually fixed some minor issues for her which turned out to just be software related. A key thing is that the machine was not network attached.
1718627440 11mo ago
Isn't Windows 8 even the same major version/generation of the OS, as the current versions?

seeing Windows 8 called old really did some psychic damage to me. If it's not a secret, what kind of customers do you have? Is it some industrial stuff as usual?

vbezhenar 11mo ago

Medicine. I'm living in third world country and probably they don't have enough money to upgrade often, they just install something and work with it for many years. Works for them, I guess, I often see computers with 2-4 GB RAM and some ancient Celeron.

dijit 11mo ago
Not to be glib, but medical equipment in the first world is the same.
- inferiorhuman 11mo ago
  Surely it uses MSVCRT though.
  - amiga386 11mo ago
    I can't speak for medical equipment, but lab equipment in testing labs (including the ones in hospitals) needs to be calibrated correctly and run exactly to the vendor's specifications. They will continue to sign off on old hardware they continue to support, even if it's actually a Pentium 3 running Windows 95 with the expensive lab device attached via the parallel port. If you try and switch out the host computer to something newer, the software may or may not work, but you will definitely fail your audits for changing software without the vendor's approval. For their part, the vendor supports you buying the new version of their device for a few million quid and it now runs via USB attached to a Windows 10 computer running their proprietary software.
    - dwattttt 11mo ago
      Since it took me a minute to realise... glib vs MSVCRT are the keywords to the joke.
trollbridge 11mo ago
My dentist had a system running Windows XP for X-rays until 2 years ago. The vendor stopped supporting it (they technically still did, but would dodge replacing parts, etc.) so I eventually fixed some minor issues for her which turned out to just be software related. A key thing is that the machine was not network attached.

1718627440 11mo ago

Isn't Windows 8 even the same major version/generation of the OS, as the current versions?