People have continued to run old management systems inside of virtual machines and similar solutions. You can sandbox it, reset it, do all kinds of wondrous things if you use modern technologies in an era-appropriate way. Run your old Windows software inside of a VM, or tweak it to run well on Wine if you have the source. The reason this mess happened is that all of those software are literally running a desktop OS in mission critical applications.
I have worked as an embedded engineer for a while and I can't count the number of nonsensical stuff I've seen incompetent people running on unpatched, obsolescent Windows XP and 7 machines. This mess is 100% self inflicted.
People have continued to run old management systems inside of virtual machines and similar solutions. You can sandbox it, reset it, do all kinds of wondrous things if you use modern technologies in an era-appropriate way. Run your old Windows software inside of a VM, or tweak it to run well on Wine if you have the source. The reason this mess happened is that all of those software are literally running a desktop OS in mission critical applications.
I have worked as an embedded engineer for a while and I can't count the number of nonsensical stuff I've seen incompetent people running on unpatched, obsolescent Windows XP and 7 machines. This mess is 100% self inflicted.