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Microsoft's Windows 10 nagware storms live TV weather forecast

Stoneshop

so it makes me wonder what kind of organisation this TV station is if they are using off the shelf windows setups.

At work we have two systems rotating status displays for various tasks. One status display being a weather radar, BTW. Both just run a browser, full-screen, so you wouldn't even know which browser that was, let alone what OS would be underneath. Normally, that wouldn't matter much either, and running Linux on them would make (temporarily) adding particular status screens remotely much easier. However, for network reasons they need to be part of the AD (but not WSUS), so, W7Pro it is, and they had been showing the GWX task bar icon when you got out of full-screen mode until we kneecapped the updater.

It's perfectly possible that this rain radar display is a special snowflake that needs to be set up the way it is because of a particular video card that interfaces with the studio gear.

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