Showing the Windows 10 desktop was the yeast they could do
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Snapped by Reg reader Chris Paxton in Ontario, Canada, today's example of signage gone wrong was spotted in a bakery. Where customers might expect a display extolling the virtues of the baked goods on offer, three Windows 10 desktops suggest all is not well behind the scenes.
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Windows 10 desktop at bakery
The bakery claims its wares are "Artisan, Fresh, and Healthy," and there are few things more delightful than freshly baked bread – even with a baleful security camera keeping watch.
The spyware baked into Windows 10 allegedly pales next to Windows 11's, so a camera ensuring nobody makes off with a baguette stuffed down their trousers won't put off the Microsoft faithful.
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Yes, there should probably be a slideshow or some imagery there. But Windows 10's stylized "Window" wallpaper with light shining through it speaks of a simpler time, when taskbars could be moved with ease, and AI assistants weren't crammed into every nook and cranny of the OS.
Today's bork is a reminder that modern technology, for all its excitement, can sometimes wilt in comparison to the past.
Windows 10 may have occasionally carried the whiff of software failure, yet that's more than compensated for by the intoxicating fragrance of a bakery, even one now paying the inevitable price for advertising its wares via Microsoft's finest. ®
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Well spotted sir!
Have one of these....
Someone didn't want toast
And it couldn't cope and had a breakdown
Re: Someone didn't want toast
who couldn't cope † and had a breakdown but fortunately had a 14 Ib lump hammer.
† "How doodly do" and Windows generally has that effect.
Re: Someone didn't want toast
The PC spotted that there was no Warburtons on show...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwBUnabkHxA
baguette stuffed down their trousers
Do they permit francophone baguettes in Ontario ?
I had the impression - admitted mostly drawn from " Letterkenny " - that Ontario wasn't deficient in red neckery with some antipathy towards Canada's centrally imposed francophone accommodation.
Somehow I cannot visualise Wayne or Shoresy with a sub. loaf shoved down their trousers.
Baked-in failure
That is all
Windows 11 toaster
If they had used Windows 11, then it would constantly ask any and all customer if they would like some toast. Not even the sales people would be safe from the toaster queries.
Re: Windows 11 toaster
And I definitely don't want any buns, baps, baguettes or bagels.
Re: Windows 11 toaster
So you're a waffle man!
There's a pun in the article title... I'd expect the comment section to have risen to the occasion by now.
Usually when there's an easy target for puns I'd be loafing my ass off reading this bit, but,apart from one rye comment, there's nothing. :(
I attribute it to the fact that the flour of Reg punnery has yet to rise.
Maybe everyone's just feeling a bit crusty about it.
The psychology of rapid misreads
I'm truly sorry. I misread 'excrement' where you wrote 'excitement'. This is evidence of something. I am now pondering whether that something is within me, or a more universal condition.
I hate those places that have displays showing a menu that switch to a different page before you have had a chance to get through half of the page... that might explain the recent demise of Leon!
That extends to Network Rail's 3-line displays that insist on wasting 2 lines to display a cancelled train that will no longer be stopping at Abergavenny, Belfast, Coventry, Dover Central, Eton & Windsor Riverside, Finsbury Park... while the 3rd line switches between the real next train and a message about the delights of next weekend's rail replacement bus service
Why O Why
Do people still use Windows for Digital signage?
Even in its LTS, POS, or Embedded guise, it's too complex and resource-hungry an OS.
Pick up a Penguin or maybe a Penguin Pi
Oh I'm really sorry, but the pedant in me can't let this pass...
three Windows 10 desktops suggest all is not well behind the scenes.
One Windows 10 desktop, 3 monitors.
Sorry.