The NHS is a pretty low bar for apps, it’s still running on Windows XP.
Like that article (or was a it comment?) a little bit back about the recently homeless by relationship issues person filling out social aid forms on an old gaming device with a very limited browser and low memory and a tiny screen.
++ found it ++
"The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML" from a thread near the end of Jan 2021.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25915313
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiven...
The right move would be to stop using a desktop OS for basic kiosks, develop an application-specific OS which could be based on something like Ubuntu. The attack surface would be significantly lower and updates could be better controlled.
It didn't stop me and remind me to update it every-time I blinked and the file search actually found files, rather then trying to redirect me to bing for some reason.
(Doesn't really excuse using it in 2021 though, except in offline specialty equipment)
These are half-decent OS's - and I'm a hardcore Linux user.
After some necessary patching, the original Windows 10 is quite good to work on. Sadly, Microsoft has seemingly changed Windows to an "OS as a service" model, which includes sending huge amounts of tracking data, instead of building just a good OS. For the average consumer, this Ubuntu-like model or continuously pushing out the latest and greatest works fine, but for professional use there is very little benefit. No desktop publisher or programmer ever asked for deeper integration of AR into their system but these features have become mandatory if you still want to receive maintenance updates for your OS.
When OS updates force a subscription-based video calling system onto your device, things have just been taken too far. A real shame.
And with companies and people using XP and 7 many years after support had ended or forcing them to continue supporting their old platforms it wasn't surprising.
Btw the bug occurs when accessing a special NTFS directory which marked the filesystem as dirty and chkdisk would fail to fix and breaks the system.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/windows-10-bu...
But here's the thing. Microsoft sends all that tracking data because that's how they find their bugs. They downscaled their in house testing and have enthusiast beta testers running pre release builds.
So without telemetry how do they discover these edge case bugs?
This is a fresh install on a Thinkpad X1 Extreme, I can only assume that this is close to the optimal user experience. I don't know how people can tolerate it.
It was just a terrible first impression.
Yes, the always at sea nuclear deterrent. Really.
Perhaps new software ain't all that. (Or, as a country, we are desperately incompetent and heading for disaster-by-BSOD)