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A Bangkok ticket machine rebooted into a nearly quarter‑century‑old operating system this week, exposing a Windows 2000 Professional splash and a user‑mode fault dialog — a small, nostalgic image on its face, but one that raises immediate operational, security and compliance questions for any...

Windows 2000, once the stable backbone of enterprise IT, has turned up in public again — not in a museum, but as the operating system behind a battered ticket terminal on Portugal’s coastline, where a user-mode memory error left the touchscreen frozen and card payments reportedly out of service...