The older IIDX used a hardware overlay for music videos, grabbing the video output from a DVD player controlled with a sort of serial connection. Of course, this component is prone to failure, but someone did devise some scripts that allow a Raspberry Pi to emulate this component and play the videos from rips instead.
Actually, they've actually been using Windows Embedded Standard 7 on a lot of their newer kits lately. This started with Dance Evolution Arcade (mainly because it needed Kinect drivers, since it was a essentially an arcade version of a Xbox 360 Kinect game called Dance Masters), but they've slowly been using 7 on newer cabinets for existing and newer franchises.
Konami changed their model for updates to their games around 2013; although most of their games use a roughly annual release model (with each new version featuring a new interface theme and branding, new content and features, etc.), they introduced a leasing system called "e-Amusement Participation" that, in most cases, supports in-place upgrades to new releases (rather than just patches to the existing version installed on the cabinet, and having to upgrade by replacing the hard drive and security dongle).
Unless the update actually requires the installation of new hardware (such as a new PC and I/O system, such as the latest beatmania IIDX release -- which, in case you're wondering, comes out on Thursday), it's pushed like a Windows 10 automatic upgrade as part of the bootstrap script. However, this doesn't update the OS, hence these older cabinets are still running the copy of XP Embedded from the last version they ran before the automatic update system was put in place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPvjhkyl048 shows Nostalgia (another Konami game) booting up into Windows Embedded Standard 7 and installing its "Forte" update. The bootstrap script is nearly identical on every Konami game, and involves quite a few console windows.
and of course they just had to make them exclusive to Rogers. Its comparable to NFL's mobile exclusivity with Verizon, except that its not like the whole service is not available to non-Rogers.
Come to Canada, this is very much a norm: Multiple sports teams are owned by Rogers, Bell (the two big media/telecommunications firms), or a combination of both. And guess which companies own the two major television sports network chains in Canada? Surprise surprise.
The Toronto Maple Leafs are owned by MLSE: Rogers and Bell own a joint majority stake in MLSE, and split regional broadcast rights to their games. Additionally, Rogers is the sole national rightsholder of the NHL in Canada as of this season. Hello, Monopoly.
Rogers itself also owns the Toronto Blue Jays AND the national rights to MLB games in Canada. Bell owns a stake in the Montreal Canadiens of the NHL too, but only its French-language sports network (which, for the longest time, was the only channel of its kind in Canada) airs its regional games. Rogers owns the English-language regional television rights to most Canadian NHL teams.
This could have been prevented IF the Bukkit code was under a permissive license rather than the GPL, or they had some type of contributor license agreement.
Personally, I think 8 is BETTER than Vista. Sure, it's got some UI regressions, but at least its still got the reliable (and now even faster) Windows 7 core underneath it (unlike Vista, which was slow and groggy)
I'm quite glad that even though Bell bought CTV in between Vancouver and London, they're still at least giving us every event streamed even WITHOUT cable/authentication.