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Windows XP is not exactly what you want to be greeted by after a soul-crushing plane ride, but there it was at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas last night.
Microsoft has been trying to wean people off of the 15-year-old operating system for years now, but the cost of upgrading legacy enterprise software and simple lack of awareness keeps XP in important places where it definitely shouldn't be, like airports and voting booths.
Since Microsoft stopped supporting XP two years ago, it doesn't get security updates anymore, putting computers still running it at serious risk. Some organizations, like the US Navy, have been so desperate to buy time that they've actually paid Microsoft to keep supporting their XP machines for a little bit longer. But if you're not paying you're not protected. And by some estimates, XP is still the third most popular operating system by market share. Not good.
