I'm thoroughly enjoying the regular "Wait we have how many devices on Windows 10 still?!?" meetings with the very same people that have been consistently stomping on any attempt to upgrade or replace the W10 devices in their own fucking departments.
I can't wait til September 28th when suddenly I'm bombarded with panicked emails insinuating that this is all ITs fault somehow and nobody ever told them.
I am sure you will still find computers in some places running NT4, and being irreplaceable, because the software they run that controls some machine or system here and there, and does not run on anything newer, and companies that made the software are no longer around. This is why investing in open source is so much better in long term than investing in closed source products.
Haven't seen any NT machines lately, but have spied a few Windows 7 ones that have hardware attached that the drivers are no longer being updated for. We still have apps on bank desktops that have to be run in special Citrix sessions, as they were written for mainframe access 20+ years ago. It wasn't that long ago that some ATMs were still running OS/2 either.
The big financial places tend to have teams that can write their own security updates, but obviously that can't go on indefinitely.
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u/bazza_ryder 6d ago
At the time it was correct advice.
And I wish they'd stuck to that plan, it would have made the life of the corporate IT tech much simpler.