Doesn't the military run its own Windows XP version that it has been updating on its own dime, because it is safer and better than anything after it? Or is that just an urban myth?
They did, as of 2015. Don't know if they still do.
And it's not necessarily that it's "safer" and "better" but they likely have a bunch of software that they either can't get to run on newer versions or they aren't able to qualify on newer versions. This happens a lot in regulated industries too, where it becomes cost prohibitive to qualify upgrades to systems to run on the newer OS-es, so it doesn't get done.
I know State Department still has 2003 servers running around the network somewhere. Legacy systems and incompetent management are a fucking security scourge.
Doesn't the military run its own Windows XP version that it has been updating on its own dime, because it is safer and better than anything after it? Or is that just an urban myth?
They did, as of 2015. Don't know if they still do.
And it's not necessarily that it's "safer" and "better" but they likely have a bunch of software that they either can't get to run on newer versions or they aren't able to qualify on newer versions. This happens a lot in regulated industries too, where it becomes cost prohibitive to qualify upgrades to systems to run on the newer OS-es, so it doesn't get done.
I know State Department still has 2003 servers running around the network somewhere. Legacy systems and incompetent management are a fucking security scourge.
there's probably some mission-critical system that they're unable or unwilling to replace.