Windows update prompt joins the Post Office queue
Customers left staring at restart plea with no keyboard, mouse, or hope
BORK!BORK!BORK! "Let's cross this one off your list"are words to strike fear into the hearts of many a Windows user, particularlywhen they appear on some Post Office digital signage.
Spotted by an eagle-eyed Registerreader in East Dulwich, London, the screen is one of two public displays designed to entertain and inform customers waiting to be ignored by amember of staff.
The Post Office is a place where objectscan be sent and forms completed or collected. It is normally identifiableby a queue of depressed citizens snaking toward (and sometimes beyond) the door,and an impressive ability to have not quite enough staff to ensure allavailable positions are open.
Here, Windows is thankfully relegated to serving up information rather than the all-important task of announcing available counters. The English may be patient queuers, but even they would baulk at a mechanical...
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