Where is the responsibility on the companies and organizations that want to run this ancient and insecure software on such mission critical applications? Microsoft does offer a path for these organizations that can't upgrade to a newer OS, they charge an onerous support fee. This is intentional to make it painful for these companies to continue using a product that Microsoft knows is insecure. They are trying to incent good behavior (aka upgrade), like the government does with a tax on alcohol and cigarettes.
If you are in a highly regulated environment like the UK NHS then there is no excuse for either not being current, paying the proper fee Microsoft to support the OS you choose to continue to run, or taking other measures to ensure that your systems are protected, such as keeping them on an isolated / secure network with no Internet connectivity. We have solutions for this stuff, Microsoft isn't the bad guy here. The people that consciously made the budgetary decision to disregard their customer's / patient's data / welfare are responsible for this.
I'm no Microsoft fanboy, but blaming Microsoft for this is like blaming Ford for a traffic death that occurs today in a car that was manufactured in the 1950s before seat belts were standard equipment. We now know seat belts save lives, if you chose to take the risk of driving a car without them that's on you, not Ford.
If you are in a highly regulated environment like the UK NHS then there is no excuse for either not being current, paying the proper fee Microsoft to support the OS you choose to continue to run, or taking other measures to ensure that your systems are protected, such as keeping them on an isolated / secure network with no Internet connectivity. We have solutions for this stuff, Microsoft isn't the bad guy here. The people that consciously made the budgetary decision to disregard their customer's / patient's data / welfare are responsible for this.
I'm no Microsoft fanboy, but blaming Microsoft for this is like blaming Ford for a traffic death that occurs today in a car that was manufactured in the 1950s before seat belts were standard equipment. We now know seat belts save lives, if you chose to take the risk of driving a car without them that's on you, not Ford.