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Public Blue Screens Of Death

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Does it qualify as a BSOD ? Or just oh crap the app crashed and there is the bare windows desktop…?

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

"You got Minesweeper on that ticket gate?"

[–] M33@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)

closeup

It looks pretty standard to me, maybe with the default windows bloatware…

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Broken network connection probably led to the app failing to start.

[–] RustyNova@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I hope it's not needed to be connected to the internet. It's not like there's 62937 vulnerability that are network based without user interactions on old windows versions, right?

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

Maybe not the internet, but I’m guessing it needs to be on some kind of network, since they are not replicating ticket data onto each of these kiosks.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Wait... That task bar... Is this still on 7 or 8? 😦

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 11 points 6 days ago

That's Windows 7 alright

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

That’s Windows 7; I suppose maybe even Vista. Probably the embedded versions.

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I saw a Windows NT 4 desktop after the app crashed in an ATM machine something like 7 years ago. Which is shockingly recent for something as old as Windows NT 4

[–] Maultasche@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

And I thought they all ran on XP

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 7 points 6 days ago

“Please stop playing Solitaire and allow the people behind you to pass”

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 6 points 6 days ago

I’ll second the motion.

Is it a touch screen? You should try and launch command prompt.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Oh neat, so Microsoft gets to know where everyone is flying to, even though the person flying gave no consent, nor involved Microsoft in any way.

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Windows Enterprise doesn't have the same spyware as normal Windows that us plebs use.

[–] M33@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 6 days ago

Based on what I see on windows enterprise edition, they do have bloatware and « spyware » unless domain administrators disable these features and build a master with all that crap removed

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

I don't use Windows, but I'm glad to hear. Thanks.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 3 points 6 days ago

Unlikely they'd get that from this, especially when everyone in the offices doing all the actual flight details is probably using normal Windows machines