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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I can understand if you would want to delay on a personal machine. That's your call. However, I am of the opinion that you should not gamble the business on it. You should not have any EOL devices in use, period. (Unless it is properly airgapped)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

You should not have any EOL devices in use, period.

every business still running custom software on XP machines, press X to doubt.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

What do you mean? We just migrated that software to a Windows XP VM running on Windows 7! That was just 15 years ago, it'll be good for another 15 for sure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

You don't connect those to the outside world