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Because the hardware support is good.

Because the licensing costs are pretty small compared to the project costs.

Because there is plenty of tech support available.

Because Windows flash support is good.

Because there are plenty of developers who will customize it for you.

Because it is easy to add to the existing networking systems being used.

There are plenty of reasons to choose Windows for this kind of thing. why is the article even complaining that the OS is old? No need for cutting-edge here. (EDIT: Oops, that was in the comments section)

(LOL at the mouse jiggler software though!)



Also,

    Any general purpose OS would have these problems
    It's stable
    Tech support is easy to find
    Software can be easily demoed
A better title for the article would have been:

Who's paying these shitty IT guys?


The mousejiggler is probably because of AD group policy restrictions to screensaver configuration.


I agree. Used both Flash and WPF (XAML) for public-facing screens - both worked fine and I didn't have to use mouse jiggler.




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