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Airport kiosks not showing Windows' best hand

April 27, 2005

ZDNet: Of the many character roles played by Windows, the one that probably gets the least coverage, is its use in public as the underlying technology behind embedded applications, such as kiosks and information panels. 

With many such applications, it's sometimes difficult, if not impossible, to tell what the underlying OS is because users typically have no access to it (as well it should be with embedded OSes). But occasionally, you'd see one of three tell-tale signs that Windows was in use under the hood.

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