[pics] ITV - Am I seeing this right?

[Gatt]

Check out the two monitors on the right

Is that what I think it is?

 

[andyturpie]

What do you think it is? I am having a brain-phart of a day and cannot make out what is on the monitors lol

[sted]

nt 4 workstation possibly nt3? might be 95/98

[Norphy]

They're rather indistinct but they could be NT4 login screens?

[LeMarchand]

2 blurry blue boxes with gradated central boxes containing a white box?

[Gatt]

nt 4 workstation possibly nt3? might be 95/98

 

They're rather indistinct but they could be NT4 login screens?

 

It does look suspiciously like an NT4 Workstation login screen...

Wonder if that reflects the quality of their programming..

 

I have also noticed a number of BBC screens showing XP Login screens.. Stil better than NT4 though!

[andyturpie]

Ah yes could be NT4 logon screens....

[andyturpie]

Was in a hospital the other day and was surprised to see they still use XP clients. Also I think my local branch of Halifax still use XP as far as I can see too.

[LeMarchand]

I think hospitals and (presumably) banks have bespoke software that won't run in more modern OSes, and getting the code rewritten might be difficult - not to mention expensive.

[Gatt]

For Reference:

 

[andyturpie]

I think hospitals and (presumably) banks have bespoke software that won't run in more modern OSes, and getting the code rewritten might be difficult - not to mention expensive.

 

I can understand hospitals, but banks have no excuse lol £$£$£$

[6Foot2]

Another view:

 

http://i.snag.gy/eGfOA.jpg

 

A bit blurry because I have tried to blow it up to get a better look at the screens. They do look like NT screens as far as I recall.

 

Picture not stretched:

 

http://www.informativostv.com/informativostv/images/BBC/bbcnews/BBC_NEWS_24_-_2004_-_The_World_Today_-_World_Business_Report_-_Media_-_07062004_-_DVD30051-01-05.jpg

[mjk]

Of course the irony here is they are probably working better without updates than w8 does with them.

[Trojan]

I saw a POS terminal in debenhams not that long ago running windows 2000 and Lloyds bank uses XP

[TechMonkey]

I bet it is a hardware compatibility issue and I bet they aren't on a network but controlling something that has serial or parallel connections

 

I can understand hospitals, but banks have no excuse lol £$£$£$

Yes but not for IT as that doesn't generate money. Don't you remember the fallout from the RBS rollback issue that caused massive issues? IT came out that they had a massive hodge podge of systems rammed together from different merges some bits no one actually knew how they fully worked or interacted. After the issues they suddenly found something like a Billion to invest in IT infrastructure.

[ascott2]

Of course that could be some library footage. Although I wouldn't put it past them to still be running NT4 here and there.

[Dos_Box]

I bet it is a hardware compatibility issue and I bet they aren't on a network but controlling something that has serial or parallel connections

 

 

Yes but not for IT as that doesn't generate money. Don't you remember the fallout from the RBS rollback issue that caused massive issues? IT came out that they had a massive hodge podge of systems rammed together from different merges some bits no one actually knew how they fully worked or interacted. After the issues they suddenly found something like a Billion to invest in IT infrastructure.

 

Yeah, I was thinking they are probably there to support some legacy hardware/software they use (tape librarys etc.).

[webman]

I bet it is a hardware compatibility issue and I bet they aren't on a network but controlling something that has serial or parallel connections.

 

My money's on this too.

 

A few years ago I helped a multimedia production organisation with a video wall they inherited, made by a company called Barco. It was a combination of two large screens (made up of 4 smaller ones in a 2x2 grid) with each small screen individually connected to video controller cards of a computer, which ran Windows NT. It was a very fragile piece of kit, took forever to do anything useful, and was impossible to upgrade the hardware, OS, drivers or software. The only visual output of the computer was the whole video wall itself, so administering the machine was always a bit of a challenge.

[sted]

It does look suspiciously like an NT4 Workstation login screen...

Wonder if that reflects the quality of their programming..

 

I have also noticed a number of BBC screens showing XP Login screens.. Stil better than NT4 though!

what quality of programming itv make 1 programme worth watching btcc so they could close down for 355 days a year and i wouldn't notice

[PotNoodleTech]

They've finally managed to upgraded to NT4!! They're moving forward fast as only last week they were still stuck on Windows 3.1 for workgroups.

[hardtailstar]

I saw a POS terminal in debenhams not that long ago running windows 2000 and Lloyds bank uses XP

 

ATMs still use 95/ME/XP.....

[Gatt]

ATMs still use 95/ME/XP.....

 

Embedded XP (ie POS, etc) is still supported for about another year

I suspect most will now wait until Windows 10 and its IoT release before getting such devices replaced?

 

Any device running a Windows OS prior to XP should be shot on site!

[CAM]

I thought banks used even older systems to the point some are doing calculations in old currency and converting it back? Either way they have some serious legacy kit simply because their computer systems are too complex and unwieldy to upgrade (the effects of even a small blip being catastrophic).

 

Also the NHS have an extended support agreement with Microsoft. Their Windows XP kit is still supported, for now.

[Quackers]

I think sometimes we forget that in the non education world sometimes PCs are put there to do a very specific task and one task only. We are use to multi purpose, multi user use of systems. We also get very VERY cheap software licensing which normal business do not get the luxury of, so moving 1000 computers from XP to say Windows 7 can be a very eye watering figure when you add up Windows, Office, Server CALS and other things.