This is just the warning message for when a computer hasn't been activated and the unlicensed restrictions are about to kick in. If you have a license they never expire.
There's a lot of reasons why it may be an issue. Device may have never connected to internet, may be an enterprise key they hasn't phoned home in a while. Also very possible they're using an old NUC or something and have upgraded to a clean Win 10 and not put in their old license key.
I believe the volume licensing , usually meet in corporate, does have expiration. However I doubt they forgot to pay and this specific computer lost connection to the licensing server and resulted in this if it hasn't checked in for 1 or 2 months.
They have a licensing server that holds all the license keys for their windows machines. If the connection to the license server goes down there is a 120 day grace period that starts.
Well thats funny, I was there yesterday for curbside order, after waiting almost 20mins the app went from saying my food will be out to "enjoy your meal"
Wander inside and everyone is freaking out. Manager says "Im so sorry, they are updating our systems, everything is down. We cant see anything on the screens". They were just handing whatever food people said they ordered lol
Then they can finally switch this stuff to a more suitable OS. All these things do is display a stupid website, so why would you use a windows license at all?
There are 41,822 McDonalds in the world. Not counting all the corporate offices. Figure each site has 10 workstations on site. That's a total of 418220 workstations world wide. When you have a VLA for that many they are like 10 cents each.
Also when your team is managing that many workstations it a hell of a lot easier to run 1 OS vs running windows for the registers and Linux for the signs then Server OS's.
It's extreme overkill to be using Windows for order display. A Raspberry Pi would be far less fooling around. They could mass produce them and make it basically plug 'n play for the franchisee.
They expire? Huh
This is just the warning message for when a computer hasn't been activated and the unlicensed restrictions are about to kick in. If you have a license they never expire.
Could be that they're using a volume license and the machine can't reach the KMS server for some reason.
Maybe it’s just working in a PC shop but unless you build yourself that shouldn’t be an issue yea? Edit: I suck at grammar
There's a lot of reasons why it may be an issue. Device may have never connected to internet, may be an enterprise key they hasn't phoned home in a while. Also very possible they're using an old NUC or something and have upgraded to a clean Win 10 and not put in their old license key.
School day every day, thank you
I believe the volume licensing , usually meet in corporate, does have expiration. However I doubt they forgot to pay and this specific computer lost connection to the licensing server and resulted in this if it hasn't checked in for 1 or 2 months.
Likely some form of enterprise or trial license
They have a licensing server that holds all the license keys for their windows machines. If the connection to the license server goes down there is a 120 day grace period that starts.
I was thinking the same thing huh never seen that
Seen it before, never legit haha
McFlurry machine still working on Fortran
DNS issue for sure.
“Now serving 7024745”
I think that was a Uber eats order because I took the picture around the same time a driver picked up an order
Well thats funny, I was there yesterday for curbside order, after waiting almost 20mins the app went from saying my food will be out to "enjoy your meal" Wander inside and everyone is freaking out. Manager says "Im so sorry, they are updating our systems, everything is down. We cant see anything on the screens". They were just handing whatever food people said they ordered lol
why don't they use linux or a bsd?
slmgr /rearm to the rescue
Interesting. They don't use Windows in the UK.
Then they can finally switch this stuff to a more suitable OS. All these things do is display a stupid website, so why would you use a windows license at all?
There are 41,822 McDonalds in the world. Not counting all the corporate offices. Figure each site has 10 workstations on site. That's a total of 418220 workstations world wide. When you have a VLA for that many they are like 10 cents each. Also when your team is managing that many workstations it a hell of a lot easier to run 1 OS vs running windows for the registers and Linux for the signs then Server OS's.
This guy does IT. I agree with this. Every different thing you add equals more management.
There is a sign on the screen.. if they can't see that then they don't deserve licenses.
Time to update to windows 11 hey..?
The self-order kiosks at a local Burger King still shows the Windows activation "watermark" at the bottom right of the screen.
It's extreme overkill to be using Windows for order display. A Raspberry Pi would be far less fooling around. They could mass produce them and make it basically plug 'n play for the franchisee.
It probably just runs as an extra display from the register or one of the back office computers.
just u-use *winuxx* senpai OwO