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Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers (www.bbc.com)

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[–] ornery_chemist@mander.xyz 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

to management: Gonna give me $100K for a new GCMS compatible with a shiny new win11 workstation that MS will obsolete in a year or two? How about paying for a new license (subscription!) and a marked up PC and a technician visit to recalibrate everything for the $2MM NMR spectrometer? And then have IT come in to install their mandatory security software that bricks the instrument anyway? No? Then enough griping about your compliance numbers. If it bothers you that much, pitch a proper ask for capital to the business and get IT to allow us to just airgap the sucker instead of trying to debug some corporate security vendor's rootkit.