[funsec] Vendors's DUMB question

[Kevin McAleavey]

I'm almost embarassed to ask this one as we haven't had a corporate customer in EONS still using NT 3.x or 4.x on their networks, but figgered I'd put this out to others who deal with curmudgeon customers in hopes of finding out if there's still any "NT" users alive out there?

 Reason for the question is I maintain antimalware code that has retained a number of compatibilities going all the way back to WFW 3.11 which out products STILL support. Secondary reason is that the only way to gather antimalware data from a victim (or potential victim) machine was the use of those almost useless PSAPI library calls since NT never supported the more modern IE-based "shill stuph." Over the years with Microsoft's varied divergences, keeping ONE executable that would run on "Windows ANYTHING" has gotten more and more complex. I'm thinking splitting off the code into separate 9x, NT-progeny (and thus the "NT question I ask) and of course 64 bit stuff which we're already handling as well.

 Code just keeps getting messier and messier. If there's like NO userbase left in the "NT world," then that allows me to do some serious axe-swinging and get rid of a lot of useless code in our software. But since I've been at this for ten years now and every time we'd polled customers in the past as to dropping "NT" code, we'd get "we still have people running that."

 Is it STILL true?   :(
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