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World’s ATMs still running Windows XP—and wildly out of date
Fox News ^ | January 17, 2014

Posted on 01/17/2014 9:43:17 PM PST by Olog-hai

Nearly all of the ATMs in the world are running the Windows XP operating system, introduced by Microsoft 13 years ago—and incredibly out of date, as any tech enthusiast will tell you.

On April 8, Microsoft will officially end the tech support for the aging OS, which was replaced by Windows Vista in 2007, Windows 7 in 2009, Windows 8 in 2012 and Windows 8.1 in 2013. […]

If an ATM isn’t upgraded, it will continue to function, experts said. Withdrawals, deposits, and other transactions will work as they did before. But the machines will be more vulnerable to cyber robbers wielding malware and other attacks as time goes on. …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: atm; hackers; microsoft; networksecurity; techsupport; windowsxp; xp
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1 posted on 01/17/2014 9:43:18 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

And here I thought that ATM’s were running proprietary software.


2 posted on 01/17/2014 9:45:29 PM PST by doc1019
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To: Olog-hai

What’s the big deal? Security isn’t important for ATMs, is it?


3 posted on 01/17/2014 9:48:42 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Obamacare: You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.)
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To: Olog-hai

Uh, either software gets the job done or gets it done efficiently or it belongs to the gov’t.


4 posted on 01/17/2014 9:48:46 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Olog-hai

XP is good.


5 posted on 01/17/2014 9:50:42 PM PST by gunsequalfreedom (Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
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To: doc1019

There’s probably some old NT boxes running stuff somewhere.

I remember V1.0, I miss old WIN95, DOS or Bust!


6 posted on 01/17/2014 9:53:01 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: Olog-hai

7 posted on 01/17/2014 9:55:14 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: NormsRevenge

LOL! I still have manuals for Windows 3.0 and 3.1. in my library.


8 posted on 01/17/2014 9:57:10 PM PST by doc1019
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To: Olog-hai

Someone here showed me the free classic shell program to add the classic start menu to my windows 8.

Winds 7 isnt bad but windows 8 is crap,.


9 posted on 01/17/2014 10:00:03 PM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : 'If you like your Doctor you can keep him, PERIOD! Don't believe the GOPs warnings')
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To: Olog-hai

XP is better than later microsoft crap!

I canned 7 and went back to XP.


10 posted on 01/17/2014 10:06:51 PM PST by dalereed
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To: Olog-hai

Windows 95 was crap, until everybody got use to it, Windows 98 was crap until everybody got use to it ... windows XP was crap until everybody got use to it. Windows 7 was crap until everybody got use to it ... etc., etc., etc.


11 posted on 01/17/2014 10:07:52 PM PST by doc1019
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To: Olog-hai

If I was designing an ATM I would use an ARM SoC.

The Raspberry Pi would make a nice foundation for an ATM.

Windows XP works pretty good, but XP is not very secure.
It’s also too large and inscrutable to power something as simple as an ATM. A good geek would use an ARM programmed in C for building an ATM...Rube Goldberg would build an ATM system that ran on XP :-)


12 posted on 01/17/2014 10:08:09 PM PST by Bobalu (The true secret to genius is in creativity, not in technical mechanics - Richard Feynman)
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To: Olog-hai

My laptop notebook runs on XP. Since there is no CD on this tiny laptop, how can I upgrade it to say Windows 7?


13 posted on 01/17/2014 10:09:18 PM PST by entropy12 (Great republics wither when more people figure out they can get free stuff by electing socialists.)
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To: doc1019

I finally chucked a bunch of stuff, one thing folks like Microsoft and HP could do was put out documentation,, lots of docs. and floppies..


14 posted on 01/17/2014 10:09:31 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: Olog-hai

At least they’re not running Windows 8. :-P


15 posted on 01/17/2014 10:10:17 PM PST by South40 (Liberalism is a Disease)
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To: doc1019

I’ve had Windows 7 on my computer for about two years and it is constantly running and I haven’t had any problems. I couldn’t say that about Windows XP.


16 posted on 01/17/2014 10:13:37 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Bobalu

> If I was designing an ATM I would use an ARM SoC.
> The Raspberry Pi would make a nice foundation for an ATM.

Yeah, I can see that.

> A good geek would use an ARM programmed in C for building an ATM.

No; A good geek would use something that had a native fixed-point numeric, something suited for the job — Ada or perhaps COBOL (considering we ARE talking about financials here).


17 posted on 01/17/2014 10:13:44 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: entropy12

You can probably download it straight from the Microsoft store.


18 posted on 01/17/2014 10:14:34 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Olog-hai
Within the last year I read that almost 50% of USA corporations still use XP.

I used it for four years, and it worked fine.

When the Space Shuttle was retired, about 90% of its code was still in its original form, which was written in the 1970’s.

Of course, the Space Shuttle was kind of a reverse ATM.

You put money in it every day, but no money ever came back out.

19 posted on 01/17/2014 10:17:54 PM PST by zeestephen
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To: entropy12

Lots of folks put it on a bootable thumbdrive and install it that way.


20 posted on 01/17/2014 10:18:48 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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