Running Windows on bus screens at Schipol Airport

Sunny' 🌻@slrpnk.net to Technology@lemmy.world – 101 points –

I don't know if it's just me that find it highly interesting that they choose to run Windows for these kind of things? Anyone able to elaborate the reasons for this? Surely this just costs them so much extra having to buy licenses for each of these screens...?

Please do correct me or clarify this for me 🌻

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It's probably Windows IOT which is commonly used for signage and displays

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_IoT

This right here. Many years ago when a foodlion near me rolled out self check outs I happened to discover a way to crash the self check app and access windows running underneath.