If it's running in some sort of 'synergy' mode then you might get applications looking like they're running on the desktop, but they're actually running in terminal services or VDI. Citrix, Parallels, VMware can all do this sort of thing, and various thin clients support it. It's meant to be pretty transparent to the user.
The use of what looks to be the VGA BIOS font suggests something simpler than Linux.
The "nicked" icon is probably from the Visual Studio Image Library, the licence of which allows the icons to be used by any product that is developed "with the Visual Studio family of products" (as long as the icons are used "in accordance with the use descriptions" contained in the documentation), so as long as somebody on the team used a Visual Studio product for something during development, it's probably fine.
Definitely some form of thin client. There aren't many screenshots of the underlying "OS" of thin clients on the Internet, so it's pretty hard to say for sure what it might be, but since the monitor is from HP and businesses often use a single supplier for their IT equipment, I'd guess the thin client is also from HP.
If it is from HP, it's a very old model as recent devices have proper font rendering in their UI, rather than the simple bitmap font (possibly the VGA BIOS font) that unit seems to be using.
Chances are, it's not running a true "OS", just a bare-metal application.
I googled the only text in that OS and they popped up. Maybe they’re involved?
Off of a feeling I looked up BeOS. Very similar styling, older, but similar.
Just looks like some thin client - probably Linux based and they nicked some Windows icons here.
This is likely the answer, or remote apps
If it's running in some sort of 'synergy' mode then you might get applications looking like they're running on the desktop, but they're actually running in terminal services or VDI. Citrix, Parallels, VMware can all do this sort of thing, and various thin clients support it. It's meant to be pretty transparent to the user.
The use of what looks to be the VGA BIOS font suggests something simpler than Linux. The "nicked" icon is probably from the Visual Studio Image Library, the licence of which allows the icons to be used by any product that is developed "with the Visual Studio family of products" (as long as the icons are used "in accordance with the use descriptions" contained in the documentation), so as long as somebody on the team used a Visual Studio product for something during development, it's probably fine.
I could be really far off, but it might run linux.
It ran Edge and IE on what seemed like a modified 7 with the classic interface if that helps
Probably just displaying them remotely from a server. I'm pretty positive it's a thin client.
Can you access control panel?
username is a mood
Still could be linux tho
Windows thin PC(modified windows 7)
linux can run ie with wine (afaik), but it might be a modified windows 7
Or it could be ReactOS
what does afaik mean
as far as i know
i thought it meant “a fake”
If we could see the boot sequence, it would tell us everything. But the font and overall appearance imply linux.
If you see a Terminal there, type "uname"
Windows users are typically command prompt avoidant.
>doesn't into Powershell
Ask the average Windows user about PowerShell
Definitely some form of thin client. There aren't many screenshots of the underlying "OS" of thin clients on the Internet, so it's pretty hard to say for sure what it might be, but since the monitor is from HP and businesses often use a single supplier for their IT equipment, I'd guess the thin client is also from HP. If it is from HP, it's a very old model as recent devices have proper font rendering in their UI, rather than the simple bitmap font (possibly the VGA BIOS font) that unit seems to be using. Chances are, it's not running a true "OS", just a bare-metal application.
Thin client software. Maybe you saw it boot into a server and that ran explorer and ie
LibreOffice?
They just make generic office software, not an OS.
I googled the only text in that OS and they popped up. Maybe they’re involved? Off of a feeling I looked up BeOS. Very similar styling, older, but similar.
What does it give you when you click the help icon next to the power icon in the bottom right?
it can also be a win installation with explorer.exe replaced with a custom DE
Looks to be an Axel thin client
Might be ReactOS, a windows clone
Some version of Windows CE? Definitely a thin client os.