The polls we have done so far show very few if any systems are running ActiveHTML and or Client/Server mode, so I don't see this as a large cause of concern.

Telnet to be looked at being replaced with SSH, etc. As part of this, ActiveHTML and Client/Server would be removed and look to be replaced with a modern, secure, approach. My personal thoughts are that we should 'raise the bar' in regards to the minimum supported operating system for future releases, to at a minimum those still supported by Microsoft. This presents a risk to the systems running these operating systems, even before we talk about the security issues with ActiveHTML, Client/Server, Telnet and other services within WG. We know there are still WG/MBBS servers out there running on Windows XP, Windows 2000/2003 server etc that have long been dropped from security support by Microsoft. Clearly since the days that WG was created, a lot has changed including the area of online security.

This is a topic that the team has been discussing and we wanted to get the community involved to seek your input.

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