Reply to post: Re: So you're blaming a commercial company for not patching a 13 year old OS?

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Re: So you're blaming a commercial company for not patching a 13 year old OS?

"Why would anyone buy a jack of all trades system, with a life of a decade or so to run expensive equipment meant to last thirty years with a specific requirement?"
No alternative. Hospitals use hundreds of devices "monitoring equipment, alarms, compounders, radiology, things of those nature" that were designed to specifically run with XP. There are zero or close to zero that run on other OSs. You can't purchase what doesn't exist.

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