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Edge-lords crack down on trackers as Microsoft effortlessly kills off PBX phone system, and what's this? Windows Calculator on iOS?

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Re: Eh?

"Why shouldn't they use XP to drive the projector if it's a stand-alone appliance?"

While there are a variety of reasons that could be cited regarding best practice and so on, the most obvious reason they shouldn't is that it might crash in the middle of a performance. It's all very well to claim that an old OS can still do a perfectly good job in certain circumstances, but this article only exists because said OS demonstrably did not do a good job.

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