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mild take: most people running windows servers on the internet, many wordpress sites, ...
some people don't upgrade because they need to pay for the new version, or the patch is only in a version with different capabilities, or they don't know how to, or they're scared of changing anything, etc. it's one of the great undercurrent failures in modern popular computing, and is one of the primary reasons it's possible for there to be so much internet background ~~radiation~~ noise
and to many of these people, "for them" it's "safe", because they never personally had to eat shit, on pure chance selection