Heathrow’s departure displays recently exposed more than flight times. One showed a Windows activation notice alongside flights to Milan and Cairo, while another carried dates from September 21 and September 12. A later incident appeared to reveal a Windows 7-style desktop beneath the signage software. The airport also keeps a retired Concorde on display.
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The Register reports three display anomalies at Heathrow, based on sightings from its readers. Departure boards are meant to show flight destinations and times.
One screen displayed a Windows activation watermark behind departures for Milan and Cairo, and its date was incorrect. Another showed one page dated September 21 and another dated September 12. Days later, a third display exposed a network dialog and taskbar that resembled Windows 7 beneath the signage interface.
Heathrow also has a British Airways Concorde preserved at the airport. Concorde left service in 2003, when Microsoft was two years into the Windows XP era.
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