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Re:An 11-Year-Old Changed the Results of Florida's President... by winstonewert on Sunday August 12, 2018 @12:43PM (#17745161)
How seriously can we take an article that refers to Windows 4.1?

(100% against voting machines, but this article doesn't seem to know what it's talking about.)

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Re:An 11-Year-Old Changed the Results of Florida's President... by close04 on Sunday August 12, 2018 @01:06PM (#17745264)
Probably referred to Windows CE 4.1. But not encouraging given that this is their writer focusing on the cybers.

And yes, it's important to be precise when you're reporting on something. It's the details that make the story. What happened if he said "Windows 4.0"? Would people think Windows CE 4.0 (supported until 2012) or Windows NT 4.0 (out of support for well over a decade).

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Re:An 11-Year-Old Changed the Results of Florida's President... by pbhjpbhj on Sunday August 12, 2018 @12:59PM (#17745228)
What's the problem, without looking I can't tell if the device was running WinCE 4.1 ... I don't really know the Windows eco-system, is that impossible?
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