Thursday, June 11, 2015

Windows Shows Hostility to Commuters!

Yesterday was the day after patch Tuesday and Windows update applied updates to my VMWARE Fusion Windows machine.  I forgot how annoying Windows updates are!  Waiting for 28 updates to apply before being able to shutdown.  When the updates were taking too long, I unplugged my MacBook pro and walked to the Train with it open while the updates were applied.  It took the whole 7 minute walk to apply the updates, in addition to the 5 minutes it ran while at my desk.


Then when I got to the MIA Airport terminal, the first Metro-Rail train was taken out of service.  When I turned to the schedule kiosk to see when the next train would arrive, the kiosk system rebooted its Windows system and applied patches.  I wish I had taken a picture of the screen.  Why on earth would you reboot train schedule kiosks at rush hour.  For that matter why would you use Windows to run a kiosk display?


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