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At a previous job, we had to deal with scientific equipment (oscilloscopes, at the like) running on Windows XP (in the lat 2010's). On the positive side, we were able to kick them off the network entirely. On the downside, nearly every single one of them was infected with Conficker and we'd get alerts when the operators used USB drives to move data between the equipment and the production network. By the time I left, we'd gotten a few of the devices reloaded with a factory image and then turned off autorun, but I'm sure the problem is still widespread. And, of course, upgrading beyond Windows XP wasn't possible and applying OS hardening to the devices was a pipe dream. There should be a special place in Hell for the management of companies which create these sorts of devices. They are happy to charge vast amounts of money, but do fuck all to ensure the security of them.
I did this on an environmental chamber temp controller a while back because it was running an embeded version of windows.
I used to work at an amusement park and the roller coaster I worked on had a touch screen in the control booth that was connected to windows 2000s PC in the room below the station where all the PLCs that controlled the ride were. Best I could tell the windows PC would monitor the PLCs and the screen up top would show us errors and just general ride info.
Anyways one of coworkers was saying the previous year the ride was down and one of the maintenance dudes was down there playing solitaire cause it was showing up on the screen in the booth.
In 2010? Last year I left a place that was running them on XP, and they "had to be connected" for "printing" reasons. I raised the flags, they did what they wanted. Whatever.