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> You've probably made a transaction recently on a device that uses an old and unpatched version of windows CE.

I'm still shipping software for WinCE4.2 devices. They're supposed to be on their own little LAN segment, not bridged to the internet, with a border PC managing them. The upgrade path would almost certainly both an expensive nightmare and possibly infeasible - they have exactly enough Flash for the OS they shipped with.

It's really a cost-benefit tradeoff; all these software updates cost money. Who pays for that, under what circumstances, and why?



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