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The Reg produces exhibit A1: A UK court IT system running Windows XP

JimboSmith Silver badge

Re: Simple updates to the system

I spoke to somebody at a trade show who had a video with what looked like Win 95 (which was EOL by this point) running on a computer. He admitted to running an out of date OS because the software was mission critical for one area of the business. However he said the machines it ran on were air gapped and the custom software refused to run properly on XP. They had the software developer working on it daily until it was fixed.

I said that I believed him and it was only EOL by a few months. I said he might just want to tell people that the video was quite old instead.

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