Windows on Wheels is back, though the truck has come to a standstill, much like the OS Bork is on wheels yet again as we visit Ireland and a very unhappy bit of mobile signage. Followers of Microsoft's flagship operating system and its habit of falling over without warning might remember February 2020's excursion into the world of Windows on Wheels and the inevitable black cab BSOD. Not to be outdone, the …
I have Win10 on 2 desktops and 4 notebooks, Funny enough I've not had the death screen once! Seen it plenty of times elsewhere though!
To be honest, my wife thinks Win10 is brilliant - she can boot to any device, do her thing then shut down. She's chuffed to bits that her work is always available on all the devices and especially her own desktop and notebook.
She says this version of Windows is the best ever - better than Win8.1 her machines came with.
So, should I (re-)tell her that all the machines (she has been using for the last 5-ish years) dual boot to Linux Mint by default and that is what she is using not Win10? Please bare in mind the adage "happy wife happy life" - and yes, she was told about it years ago - I just gave up correcting her,
Having had the pleasure of sub contracting for the firm that runs these screens i can tell you it’s through lack of maintenance.
They also operated the totem screen that was on El Reg last week in Peterborough.
My company was contracted ad-hoc with looking after the totem screens across the UK and actively monitoring them and fixing if required.
eight months in to a six month contract they stopped paying and cancelled the contract.
They never got serviced as the costs was not factored in by them, every single thing was done as cheaply as possible.
Most of the sites were hand downs from VMG group and passed through seven ad companies until they just fell in to dis-repair.
Anon for obvious reasons
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