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Originally Posted by weedahoe
Not too many people still run Windows 98-ME anymore. Understand? WM2k2 and 2k3 are gone and with good reason, theyre outdated. Does you employer not supply you with a PPC/PDA or are you finding at some point they had this software available and you want to use it for convience?
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I can tell you that you would be surprised to find what versions of windows are lurking in your hospitals.
There are two kinds of healthcare in this country; non-profit and for-profit.
The non-profit people use obsolete equipment because they cannot afford to upgrade. They have custom software written for Windows 95 and will continue to run it until the hardware dies.
The for-profit people won't spend the money to upgrade the equipment because of the old addage 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it.'
In both cases, the software platforms are old and antiquated. But since the vast majority of hospital PCs still run on a Win9X platform that is what the specialized vendors still write for.
I've seen fetal heart monitors that still run on DOS. And most of the PDAs I've seen are of the old Palm V generation. Trust me; Windows Mobile 2003 is still considered standard in most hospitals.