"Also, where possible, we're going to have those medical devices running Windows XP."https://twitter.com/EmilyGorcenski/status/747251160906600448 …
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Replying to @gravbeast
That's... actually kind of smart. For complicated reasons.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
It's tended not to work out well, in practice. For fairly simple reasons.
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Replying to @gravbeast
For EMR systems, I agree. But airgapped medical devices are still running XP in the wild. A lot.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski @gravbeast
The driver model that changed with Vista made it substantially harder to run embedded systems. And usability is factor, too
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski @gravbeast
Lifecycles of Class III medical devices are about an order of magnitude greater than that of an operating system.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski @gravbeast
It just so happened that a breakpoint occured after XP, which was a well-matured OS. Used in many mission critical systems still.
9:39 PM - 26 Jun 2016
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