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Re: Risk Management

"The specific risk for XP is that it doesn't get patches. But, again, the issues with XP aren't simple. In many cases it will have been retained because something mission-critical depends on it and replacing whatever that is may require major expenditure and further risks. If your MRI scanner, for instance, relies on a no-longer maintained piece of XP-only software do you simply put your hand in your pocket for a few million to replace it"

Are you ignorant or just trying to misdirect?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/18581/lifecycle-faq-windows-products

The applicable software for controlling stuff like an MRI scanner isn't desktop Windows XP, it's one of the Windows Embedded family, the XP-derived ones of which can be supported (including patches) till 2019:

Just go away, right. You're really not helping anyone.

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