I mean, you can if you want to

I would still be using Windows 7 if it was safe to connect to the internet.

I can't believe government systems are just open to cyber security like that.

Are there not cyber terrorists for some teenager that has tried to do anything with these unsecured systems?

I run a computer on Win7 at work, because it needs some important legacy software. It can't be containered because it has a nasty licence manager.

And my oscilloscope runs on Win98.

It's not safe and all that stuff.

Check if there's alternatives to what you use in Windows, or if there's a Linux version. Decide if you need to use the windows program, or if the Linux equivalent will work. There may be a learning curve to using a different program, but I haven't yet really found anything that doesn't have an equivalent that isn't a program paired with hardware that will only work with each other.

It might be. I remember buying a laptop at that time and it came with 8 and it annoyed me so dang much.

I've had success with Office 2010 under Wine.

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=18487

Ancient industrial machines use ancient windows computers. This has been known forever. There's a whole niche industry of very expensive ram and hard drives and other components keeping this industry going

But how else can it book requests for priority access, and verify the credit card for whoever booked the elevator?