“When asking the supplier if we could update it to W10, we were told that it would stop the machine from working.”
A £4,000 pick-and-place machine shipped running Windows 7, two years past end of support, with a virus that infected any USB stick plugged into it. The maker apologized and blamed a colleague or a supplier. AliExpress, which sold it, did nothing. Factory equipment is a supply chain attack waiting for someone to bother.