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Offline Maik

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Banking on XP
« on: Saturday, 15 March, 2014 @ 14:44:08 »
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Banks around the world, consumed with meeting more stringent capital regulations, will miss a deadline to upgrade outdated software for automated teller machines (ATMs) and face additional costs to Microsoft to keep them secure.

The U.S. software company first warned that it was planning to end support for Windows XP in 2007, but only one-third of the world's 2.2 million ATMs which use the system will have been upgraded to a new platform, such as Windows 7 by the April deadline, according to NCR, one of the biggest ATM makers.

To ensure the machines are protected against viruses and hackers many banks have agreed deals with Microsoft to continue supporting their ATMs until they are upgraded, extra costs and negotiations that were avoidable.

Britain's five biggest banks - Lloyds Banking Group , Royal Bank of Scotland, HSBC, Barclays and Santander UK - either have, or are in the process of negotiating, extended support contracts with Microsoft.

The cost of extending support and upgrading to a new platform for each of Britain's main banks would be in the region of 50 to 60 million pounds.

Windows XP currently supports around 95 percent of the world's ATMs.

The queue of banks waiting to upgrade means there aren't enough people to do the work.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/14/banks-atms-idUSL6N0M345C20140314


Support (security updates) for XP and MS Office 2003 ends on 08 April.

...So, don't go surfing the net for porn down at your local ATM after 08/04  ;)

Offline TonyD

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Re: Banking on XP
« Reply #1 on: Saturday, 15 March, 2014 @ 16:45:14 »
and MS Server 2003