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Somewhere in the unmentionable basements of industry, there are virtualized air-gapped XP boxes running mission-critical VBA.


At least as recently as 2014, I was aware of some random Windows 3.1 (yes) machines running in a corporate data center owned by a very recognizable Fortune 500 company. At the time, they were upgrading all their Windows PCs from XP to 7 and this 3.1 box showed up. I confirmed that it was, in fact, real.





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