The death of Windows XP will impact 95 percent of the world’s ATMs

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Post by together_us » Mon, Jan 20, 2014, 1:42 PM UTC

The death of Windows XP will impact 95 percent of the world’s ATMs
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Re: The death of Windows XP will impact 95 percent of the world’s ATMs

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Post by err4nt » Mon, Jan 20, 2014, 2:06 PM UTC

If they are inconvenienced by having to upgrade from Windows XP to continue support, why the heck are they migrating to a different legacy Windows version (non-current)

With all the headache and expense of this, I don't feel sorry for them if they didn't (yet) learn their lesson! I hoped/wished that banking would have the sense to use a customized *nix server for this sort of thing that can be supported in-house as long as there are computers and people who work on them (where you don't have that kind of access to self-patch windows)

Re: The death of Windows XP will impact 95 percent of the world’s ATMs

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Post by csbrooks » Mon, Jan 20, 2014, 2:43 PM UTC

A question that occurred to me reading this: ATMs aren't connected to the internet, are they? (Seems like that would be very tempting for the bank in terms of convenience, but very dangerous.)