• sylver_dragon@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Probably running half the US Government’s systems.
    The US Navy famously paid Microsoft to keep supporting Windows XP well after it’s End of Life. There’s probably some highly critical mainframe running in a basement somewhere, with no backups, spare parts cobbled together from failing systems and some gray beard wizard keeping it all spinning.