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Another thing that would add more information to the picture is something like "percent of installbase running vulnerable version." If, for example, researcher
by awakeasleep 11y ago
Another thing that would add more information to the picture is something like "percent of installbase running vulnerable version."
If, for example, researchers found 10k vulnerabilities in windows 3.1, it wouldn't make sense to ding microsoft for an insecure operating system, because no one runs that and it's not reasonable to expect support.
- krylon 11y ago> because no one runs that and it's not reasonable to expect support. I would not be overly surprised if it turned out somebody was still using Windows 3.1 - I know of at least one company still running NT 4 on at least a few select machines. (This does not invalidate your point, though.)
- highmastdon 11y agoSomeone still using it: https://news.vice.com/article/windows-31-is-still-alive-and-it-just-killed-a-french-airport https://news.vice.com/article/windows-31-is-still-alive-and-...