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Re:ReactOS: Rebuilding Microsoft Windows from the ground up,... by sigstoat on Saturday August 31, 2013 @10:32PM (#6308869)
as an example: scientific instrumentation manufacturers are rather bad about keeping their software up to date, and some of them are good about making instruments that will run for decades.

it is hardly anything-friendly to toss a working, expensive instrument because you can't buy a computer that will run ancient-OS-whatever anymore, or they EOL'd the OS and you can't get patches, etc.

there isn't enough diversity/competition/whatever in the market to shop for instruments on the basis of software quality. sadly.

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Re:ReactOS: Rebuilding Microsoft Windows from the ground up,... by raverbashing on Sunday September 01, 2013 @04:27AM (#6309515)
Yes

This is a huge pet peeve of mine. Most equipment is "Windows based" today

It is "ok" if it's fully built-in, still vulnerable to network/USB exploits, though.

The main issue is when it's a USB/PCI device, and then you have to provide the computer to run it, and of course, there's probably not going to be support for the next versions.

This is usually equipment costing 5 to 6 digits

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