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  • Windows Update Troubles: It’s Not Just You

    Spotted on a price scanning terminal during our grocery ride:

    Price scanner update in progress
    Price scanner update in progress

    The process continued on all the scanner terminals as we collected our weekly supplies, crashed because a file was missing / locked / whatever, then became a steel-cage death match between whoever was running remote updates and Microsoft Windows:

    Price scanner remote support
    Price scanner remote support

    Given the recent history of catastrophically bad Windows Updates, one might be inclined to consider a different OS for embedded applications, but …