[Infowarrior] - Fwd: Banks To Pay Microsoft $100m each to Support Outdated Windows XP-based ATMS

[Richard Forno]

> From: Joe 
> http://www.techweez.com/2014/03/17/banks-paying-to-support-atms-running-windows-xp/
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> Microsoft has put deadline to the Windows XP support set to end on April 8th 2014. Among those hardest hit by this
> move are the major banks in the US and UK and their global subsidiaries whose ATMs are still running on the 12
> year-old operating system. Around 95 percent of ATMs in the world are still running on Windows XP according to ATM
> machine maker NCR but only a third of banks will upgrade their ATMs to a newer OS before official XP support ends on
> April 8th, leaving many institutions little choice but to pay Microsoft for an extended contract if they still want
> support.
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