
Full article here https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48817384
Something similar happened when looking for the correct check-in a few years back, not sure whether it was in Turkey or Croatia, might even have been somewhere else. Can't remember what version of Windows they were using. All the monitors were showing the bootup screens ..
Probably still waiting for her computer to reboot ..
I fully support using hardened, well-worn technology to back a variety of use cases, especially mission-critical ones.
When I was in Telecom, we used to maintain the telecoms for our local military establishments. The laugh was we'd need a security clearance and guard to enter their top secret communications facility to maintain gear that the rest of the world had pensioned off when Noah got off the Ark.
I'd say it does more to demote that old OS. Whilst it was great in terms of what was available at the time with commercial OSes, it did bork itself on numerous occasions. Plenty of hangs, freezes, Blue Screens of Death and the more occasional random reboots.
at least 318 public sector networks still routinely using Windows XP despite Microsoft having pulled nearly all support for the operating system in 2014
And this fact seriously surprises anyone?RIH wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2019 6:45 amThe United Kingdom's GCHQ's National Cyber Security Centre has just released its' annual report.
Included in the report is the detail that...at least 318 public sector networks still routinely using Windows XP despite Microsoft having pulled nearly all support for the operating system in 2014
For some reason I misinterpreted this to mean an internal report i.e. their systems included all these xp installations ..