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I think some smaller businesses maybe stlll using XP for cash registers, and using XP PCs for looking up prices and inventory for products.
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Actually, government and military still use old systems for stuff that never got upgrades.
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I bet, some military may make a custom version of Windows to prevent mainstream security vulnerabilities from breaking their computers, and to save space on the hard drive to store more files like videos and audio files.

I heard old factory machinery only work on Windows XP computer.
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I've seen a local place have a few things still run XP and even run stuff off of floppy disks.
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I heard Japan is trying to make government workers not use Floppy drives. I think Floppy drives are still being used because people don't like to change their habits, and they have a lot of old floppy drives which are good enough for carrying text and .doc files.
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Floppies are pretty useless, though I don't think they get infections.
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I agree Floppy drive are not as useful these days unless you mostly use Floppies to store small text files. I think there are Floppy viruses which spread viruses when you insert the floppy in the PC during startup or manually opening a file in a floppy drives.

I imagine small file size viruses may still fit on a floppy drive which can store a 1.44 MB file on the drive.
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