7 places you’ll be surprised to learn are still using Windows XP

Microsoft announced in April of 2014 that it would no longer support the 13-year-old Windows XP operating system. However, now, more than a year later, Kaspersky Labs and Net Applications both report that between 16-17 percent of computer users still use XP. You may think that it’s mostly consumers, but the reality is that millions of business-critical systems are still running Windows XP, leaving them open to potential security issues. “When a company ends support, like Microsoft did, then vulnerabilities don’t get fixed. If these vulnerabilities get public, [they] will be all over the Internet and easy to exploit. The problem with XP is that it was such a good, robust system that is still has quite a large user base,” says Andrey Pozhogin, senior product marketing manager at Kaspersky Lab North America.

We were surprised to uncover some large organizations still relying on this retired technology. Here’s a look at seven places you wouldn’t expect to still be using Windows XP.