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It sure does expire its usefulness. Try running old phpBB forum, Android 4 phone, or browser from 2011. Software degrades into a point of uselessness.

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And yet, Windows XP and IE 5 still have a nonzero market share for some reason.

Windows XP and Vista have a market share of less than 0.1% if we are to believe steam stats. https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

Either that, or steam doesn't work on these and the missing 0.1% are Windows Server OS. Turns out, software does stop working for real.

Steam dropped support for XP and Vista last year

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1558-AFC...

Steam doesn't count the 3.2 million ATMs worldwide and still far too many running XP.

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