I saw someone running win98se 5 years ago, the box seething, writhing in pain with highly apparent malware, as a controller for industry grade, niche market mac

I saw someone running win98se 5 years ago, the box seething, writhing in pain with highly apparent malware, as a controller for industry grade, niche market machinery. It was network connected for "the IT company to log in and fix things", had software that would only work in win98se, and because the machine was "in the room", its browser was used because "convenient". No one cared. This is normalcy for most people. Even if the "it only works on bare metal" thing was true, and its hardware key device may make that a reality, there's zero reason to let people browse on it. Or leave it online 24x7, one could bring a switch port up/down when needed. Ah well. As you say, this is normal.