Service NSW (Australia) ditches windows for Chrome OS

[ces160]

Service NSW in Australia is ditching all of their windows based devices for Google's Chom OS. 

 

For the non Australian's Service NSW is basically our version of the DMV. 

 

https://www.itnews.com.au/news/service-nsw-ditches-windows-os-497733

[W-L]

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[danomicar]

Smells like dirty money... or maybe thats just australia. 

 

If it's anything like the USA, NSW is probably upgrading from DOS

[Arika]

ew.....why?

[Virus__]

30 minutes ago, mcfly said:

Smells like dirty money... or maybe thats just australia. 

 

If it's anything like the USA, NSW is probably upgrading from DOS

Nah. A lot of gov't uses Windows 7 funnily enough. So do a lot of the POS machines in supermarkets here in Australia too. Before that we were running either WIndows XP on our self serve registers or Windows 2000, the hardware was that ancient.

 

Not really sure why the move to Chrome OS, maybe they're able to get a tailored OS to make things more streamline. I know my work ended up ditching a standard software by NCR for their POS/Self serve & went with a custom one that works with our inventory system (which is fucking web based), even though it appears to still be by NCR, but it's their own or whatever, only reason the "upgrade" was something about licensing the license ran out & support had ended so new software & POS machines it was.

[EPENEX]

A step in the right direction... kinda. Governments shouldn't be using Windows in my opinion, but they probably shouldn't be using Chrome OS either.