Windows XP so out-of-date it limited WannaCry spread
WannaCry contains seeds of its own destruction - crashed XP PCs before it could spread

WannaCry spread through the global internet in a matter of hours
In a survey for Reuters, security firm BitSight found that 67 per cent of WannaCry-infected PCs it investigated were running Windows 7 without important security patches, despite the OS being installed...
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