US air traffic control systems will finally start dropping floppy disks — but it'll take until 2028 to finish
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If the FAA needs until 2028 just to retire floppy disks across 400+ facilities, assume any safety-critical system you touch has similar legacy drag. For vendors selling into regulated infra, build timelines and integration plans around this pace of change, not around your product roadmap.
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