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There is a relatively old—though still fundamentally true—adage about Windows: Microsoft's biggest competition is Microsoft, as a specific subset of users (and businesses) only upgrade to the latest version of Windows kicking and screaming. According to SpiceWorks' Future of Network and Endpoint Security report, published Tuesday, 32% of organizations still have at least one Windows XP device connected to their network, despite extended support for XP ending in 2014. (Notably, the last variant of XP, Windows POSReady 2009, reached end of life in April 2019.)
With the looming end of free support for Windows 7, this reticence of users and enterprises to upgrade to newer versions of Windows is likely to create significant security issues. Presently, 79% of organizations still have at least one Windows 7 system on their network, according to SpiceWorks, which also found that two thirds of businesses plan to migrate all of their machines off Windows 7 prior to the end of support on January 14, 2020, while a quarter will only migrate after that deadline.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday July 31 2019, @12:06PM
I wonder what class of application. The examples I'm all aware of are "appliances" that generally are not connected to the network or are firewalled to ridiculous levels.
HVAC controller. Electronic door lock controller. Eprom (and similar microcontroller device) programmer. An old fashioned film scanner. Generally a front end GUI plugged into very expensive hardware. And you can get away with either never connecting it to anything or transferring files ever, or a little flash drive is more than adequate.