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by bluedino 4551 days ago
Chances are those DOS systems aren't connected to the internet and vulnerable to a billion different attacks like XP machines are.
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I'm sure that a lot of XP machines in the corporate world aren't connected to the internet either. For example, there's no reason to give a bunch of low-level employees in the accounting department access to the internet, and if their company's internal software runs fine on IE8 (or as native code), there's no particular reason to move away from XP. PCs on a factory floor that control industrial machinery probably aren't connected to the internet either.