I’ve never seen an MS-DOS pump in my life (pretty sure the contactless payment terminals wouldn’t like them), but I’ve seen plenty of Windows CE. Most of them either connected only to an intranet or not connected at all. You don’t really need all that much complexity for the ordering screen at a restaurant.
That’s not even a problem for connected systems, either. Windows Embedded POSReady 7 (POS standing for “point of sale”) will still receive critical and important security updates until October this year. Windows Embedded Standard 7 got updates until last October. Windows For Embedded Systems (a version of Windows 8) will receive support until 2026, while Windows 10 for consumers dies a year before that!
If you buy a new device and want to run the same version for as long as possible, Windows 10 IoT Enterprise has a SKU that will receive support until 2032. It’s not just Windows, though; Ubuntu 14.04 (released in April of 2014, hence the name) will receive support until next year as well, boasting an impressive 12 years of support if you’re willing to pay for it.
I’ve never seen an MS-DOS pump in my life (pretty sure the contactless payment terminals wouldn’t like them), but I’ve seen plenty of Windows CE. Most of them either connected only to an intranet or not connected at all. You don’t really need all that much complexity for the ordering screen at a restaurant.
That’s not even a problem for connected systems, either. Windows Embedded POSReady 7 (POS standing for “point of sale”) will still receive critical and important security updates until October this year. Windows Embedded Standard 7 got updates until last October. Windows For Embedded Systems (a version of Windows 8) will receive support until 2026, while Windows 10 for consumers dies a year before that!
If you buy a new device and want to run the same version for as long as possible, Windows 10 IoT Enterprise has a SKU that will receive support until 2032. It’s not just Windows, though; Ubuntu 14.04 (released in April of 2014, hence the name) will receive support until next year as well, boasting an impressive 12 years of support if you’re willing to pay for it.