VANCOUVER, British Columbia–The good news for Microsoft is that all the PCs powering the Olympics are running Windows. The bad news: it’s the older Windows XP operating system.
Windows 7, it seems, was a bit too new to be used, while Windows Vista was, well, Windows Vista. So, instead, all the PCs are running an operating system that was first released before the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City.
Representatives for Acer confirmed that the more than 6,000 notebooks and desktops that they delivered to Olympic organizers were all running Windows XP.
“It was the operating system requested by VANOC (the Olympic organizing committee) and Atos Origin” (the technology integrator managing the Olympics tech operations), said Todd Olson, who manages Acer’s tech work in Vancouver.
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