Things like Google Glass, which were expensive consumer products people shelled a lot of money for.
OS/2 was used in ATMs for a really long time, and so was WinXP in kiosks. There are a lot of systems that still use XP yes (causing many security nightmares), but Microsoft did support that OS for an incredibly long time. I agree, I wouldn't use anything Google for a Kiosk. You're better off with custom packages ontop of Ubuntu LTS or something similar.
> Microsoft did support that OS for an incredibly long time
And you could pay Microsoft to keep supporting it. Sure, it might be several million dollars to keep XP support for another year (and big increases each year)... but for some large customers it was available (banks with ATM's based on XP).
Re:Chrome Enterprise
by dragonwriter on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @01:40AM
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> Things like Google Glass, which were expensive consumer products people shelled a lot of money for.
Glass was never a consumer product; Explorer Edition was fairly clearly marketed to people developing apps or investigating potential.
I would NEVER trust a Google Operating system in the Enterprise. For example they are pushing a use case as Kiosk's Kiosk need to run for years with stability, not be at the whims of a company that can kill the product in a whim or make substantial non-backward compatible changes to it ever 12 months