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It is funny because these keys cost nothing and users can change them easily and cheap. With crypto, that key market only grew. Keys became more available and affordable. People prefer to have limited functions and annoying "active windows" warning message for years, than to spend 5-10 dollars and forget about it. That is a cost of 1 cup of coffee...
I get your point, although "cost of 1 cup of coffee" only applies on some country/place.
I am not a Windows huge fan, but I see that a lot of people are against it. This makes me wonder, when banks operate with huge money and most important other peoples money, why most of banking operators have Windows installed on their working PC. Mostly their software is for Windows. All those managers and those who work with customers, have windows based devices. We, cryptocurrency community, say that Windows is no good if we want to protect our money. But banks used Windows to operate with other peoples money, large amount of money. Dont you find it strange?
Aside from what @NotATether said, i expect their security expert manually configure those windows computer to be more secure. Usually it comes with trade-off, such as slower computer performance or you only can access certain server.
That is right, security experts taught, explained users what they can do on work device and what not, as well as manually configure and monitor everything. That points that the threat goes from users actions, not from attack from outside. It does not matter if they use Windows 7,11 or old XP, Pro-home-student or whatever version of OS they have. User makes first move towards problems.
A friend of mine works for large Scandinavian bank and uses windows laptop for remote work. He has bought it himself, gave it to IT and they installed VPN and some soft to it. That is it. No super protection or whatsoever.
I am just trying to say here, that many live with old experience of Windows, when there were viruses on CD of floppy disks. When people open everything they get from email and click next>next>next during any installation, the causes those awful bars to IE to install. Modern windows user or OS is not a colander or cavemen.