alt Hacker NewsWhat applications are base on this? I mean it sounds super charming and nostalgic to drop a line or two which runs on WinXP, but is this actually useful?
What applications are base on this? I mean it sounds super charming and nostalgic to drop a line or two which runs on WinXP, but is this actually useful?
Mostly legacy industrial machines that need some additional software for telemetry, scheduling, automation etc.
These machines are likely to live at least another 10-15 years and even the brand new ones being sold today uses Windows 7.
Modern languages and frameworks proceed and leave these old systems behind, but everything from our infrastructure to manufacturing capacity that exists runs on legacy systems, not modern computers. The cost of replacing the computers is usually more than the machine itself.