It’s only to show the stops. Most people who ride that line regulary don’t even look at those screens..
You think it could run Windows 11? Who’s going to pay for the upgrade?
Windows XP is still widely in use in enterprises when hardware is too old/no longer supported for a modern OS and it’s too expensive to replace. Probably such terminals are not connected to the internet and can only communicate by cable with another computer on the bus that is up-to-date and secure.
This is funny but as long as there are no connections to outside systems it could be harmless, that being said, De Lijn has switched over to linux for at least 10 years so It’s kind of pathetic that Brussels hasn’t figured this out.
Some busses have airconditioning igniting in the summer, I doubt windows xp is a concerning topic
But is it licensed?
Don’t ask for upgrade or single ticket price is gonna rise beyond 3€ lol
Outdated software is the standard when it comes to large corporations. Banks, medical equipment, airports, NASA, and the army all use vastly outdated operating systems.
The reason is that the risk of something braking compatibility is just too high. And why change it if it works.
I remember seeing this a couple of times and laughing. Upgrading to linux is literally free (ok I admit there would be costs to hire competent coders, but in my defence some countries have taxi systems on linux that function perfectly on newer and older cars)
I work in the tech industry (games, drivers, general low level stuff). You’d be surprised how old the software on many things are (like ATM’s). It’s a combination of a lot of that infrastructure was written decades ago + why buy expensive hardware that runs Windows 10 when you can buy cheap hardware that runs MS-DOS that does the job?
One of the best paid programming jobs is writing COBOL, a language nobody uses anymore for new software (and hasn’t for decades), but loads of critical infrastructure is using (and so needs to be maintained).
Vulnerability isn’t really an equation when these systems are mostly airgapped, or if the penetration leads to no gains (for example what’s the gain of breaching the entertainment system of a bus?).
Industrial lifecycle is not equal to software lifecylce.
And don’t start with they should run Linux, that has the exact same issues for patching & OS lifecycle.
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If it’s not broken, don’t fix it.
In the informatics field that’s pretty normal
It’s only to show the stops. Most people who ride that line regulary don’t even look at those screens..
You think it could run Windows 11? Who’s going to pay for the upgrade?
Windows XP is still widely in use in enterprises when hardware is too old/no longer supported for a modern OS and it’s too expensive to replace. Probably such terminals are not connected to the internet and can only communicate by cable with another computer on the bus that is up-to-date and secure.
This is funny but as long as there are no connections to outside systems it could be harmless, that being said, De Lijn has switched over to linux for at least 10 years so It’s kind of pathetic that Brussels hasn’t figured this out.
Some busses have airconditioning igniting in the summer, I doubt windows xp is a concerning topic
But is it licensed?
Don’t ask for upgrade or single ticket price is gonna rise beyond 3€ lol
Outdated software is the standard when it comes to large corporations. Banks, medical equipment, airports, NASA, and the army all use vastly outdated operating systems.
The reason is that the risk of something braking compatibility is just too high. And why change it if it works.
[An airport in Paris](https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-23-year-old-windows-3-1-system-failure-crashed-paris-airport/) crashed in 2015 because it used Windows 3.1!
I remember seeing this a couple of times and laughing. Upgrading to linux is literally free (ok I admit there would be costs to hire competent coders, but in my defence some countries have taxi systems on linux that function perfectly on newer and older cars)
I work in the tech industry (games, drivers, general low level stuff). You’d be surprised how old the software on many things are (like ATM’s). It’s a combination of a lot of that infrastructure was written decades ago + why buy expensive hardware that runs Windows 10 when you can buy cheap hardware that runs MS-DOS that does the job?
One of the best paid programming jobs is writing COBOL, a language nobody uses anymore for new software (and hasn’t for decades), but loads of critical infrastructure is using (and so needs to be maintained).
Vulnerability isn’t really an equation when these systems are mostly airgapped, or if the penetration leads to no gains (for example what’s the gain of breaching the entertainment system of a bus?).
Industrial lifecycle is not equal to software lifecylce.
And don’t start with they should run Linux, that has the exact same issues for patching & OS lifecycle.