For those of you who are old enough to remember: Windows Update used to be a website that scanned your machine using an ActiveX control.

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    3 years ago

    The systems running your power grid, your water mains and your local trains are all XP or older.

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      3 years ago

      The old lady behind the counter at our bus station is using dos to handle the payments and print the tickets

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          3 years ago

          Yeah she just uses the keyboard to input a few fields very quickly. It’s that machine’s sole purpose. But I assume it’s still connected to some network to get data about ticket availability and I wonder how secure it is.