Should Windows...

[EagleFlyt]

Help Developers create a new program for use in Hospitals free of charge to those hospitals. This way to make sure Hospitals can be safer with personal information. As some Hospitals are still using Windows XP and Windows 2000 Because they can not afford to pay for the development. (Such as Not For Profits)

[tikker]

Also consider the cost of training every person in such an establishment (or the entire industry) to switch to and use the new system. I think that's what's mainly stopping these kind of big switches.

[Syntaxvgm]

there's already more customizable versions like LTSB for this. It's not as bad a say airports, but some hospitals do suffer from the onion problem- old hardware and software at the center running every core process, new hardware slapped on top. 

[Drak3]

Unless it makes them money to continue making other products, no.

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The issue often isn't the cost of switching software, it's hardware incompatibility.  If your multi-million dollar MRI machine is simply incompatible with the newer version of Windows, you're not going to buy a new scanner whenever Microsoft decides to cram a new version of the OS down everyone's throat. 

[TetraSky]

Nah, "windows" shouldn't do shit. Nor should Microsoft.

It's up to the Hospitals to get their act together and invest in newer softwares/drivers to make their old machines compatible. But they always get ripped off, charged millions of dollars for a product that is essentially designed to brick itself if they update anything.

So really, it's whoever designed their softwares/machines that should be helping them, not MS/Windows.

[Syntaxvgm]

19 minutes ago, TetraSky said:

Nah, "windows" shouldn't do shit. Nor should Microsoft.

It's up to the Hospitals to get their act together and invest in newer softwares/drivers to make their old machines compatible. But they always get ripped off, charged millions of dollars for a product that is essentially designed to brick itself if they update anything.

So really, it's whoever designed their softwares/machines that should be helping them, not MS/Windows.

Vi/vt-d and vms are now an essential part of operating machinery with a life of 20+ years but a software support life about idk 3 

[Sauron]

5 hours ago, EagleFlyt said:

Help Developers create a new program for use in Hospitals free of charge to those hospitals. This way to make sure Hospitals can be safer with personal information. As some Hospitals are still using Windows XP and Windows 2000 Because they can not afford to pay for the development. (Such as Not For Profits)

That may be part of the reason they don't upgrade, but the main reason is that they have legacy software and hardware that doesn't work with more recent versions of windows. The cost of a few windows licenses is minimal compared to the cost of substituting the machinery and drivers. A lot of this could be avoided if medical software developers were forced to open source their stuff, but alas.