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... have you ever thought about it ? I did few times in my 11+ years of RIA centric career! Even if it's like comparing potatoes with tomatoes I'd like to share my thoughts about it, would you mind ? What we always laughed about OS the blue/gray screen with an incomprehensible error message the Message Box with some rant about some memory address failure the unresponsive OS due some broken application able to make everything else stuck regardless the number of CPU and thread the OS can handle the " quit program " explicit action that does not quit the program any sort of security issue the change/update that requires a system reboot What we are always "scared about" online the white screen due some JS/CSS failure for the current browser the forgotten alert or console.log inside some try catch with some rant about generic error message (or even worst, the unmanaged error) the unresponsive DOM/web page due some broken piece of JavaScript able to make every...

This may sounds silly, surely not technical, but today I've lived the last drop before crackpots! IE6 Inside The Cash Point I am not joking, I have no idea how many cash points use windows and IE to run a 7 screens software. Have you never noticed a " click clack " while you are performing your operations? OK, maybe banks do not even buy Microsoft licenses, or maybe those are dedicated cache machine version of Windows, but I could never imagine to find a windows popup with an error in a cache machine, it is ridiculous! Those one with just text? Well, they look old and ugly, but I've rarely seen one disabled. We have dozen of valid Operating System able to perform the same software for years without requiring a single reboot. How difficult will be to create an OS specific for a cash point where operations are always the same, adding just 1 image format supported? What I mean is that you can find active screens with lottery ads inside running 24/7 without problems over ...