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Tuesday March 7, 2006
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  I can understand why New York City's transit authority uses a Microsoft solution on their ubiquitous Metrocard machines. It gives them one point of contact for support and one point of blame if things go wrong, as opposed to the distributed-responsibility scenario of open source OSes. But come on guys, NT 4.0? I'd think a Windows CE Embedded solution would give you more stability, especially in a relatively simple e-commerce app where uptime is everything.
(Photos taken with Cingular's new LG CU320 cameraphone, by the way.)
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March 7, 2006 5:53 PM
Your point is that they are currently choosing NT 4.0. Most likely they chose NT 4.0 several years back and the cost to upgrade for many terminals now is expensive. They might even raise fares so leave them alone; time will come when it is cost effective to replace outdated hardware and software. They aren't the only shops still running NT 4.0. Must be a reason.