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1492
Moderator
Mar 15, 2014

Have You Upgraded WIN XP Yet? ... 95% of Bank ATMs Have Not!

It's estimated that nearly 500 million PCs still run Window XP, 70% in China. But with the April 8 deadline for extended end of support looming, it appears that 95% of bank ATMs are still running WIN ...
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mlts22
Explorer
Mar 17, 2014
An ATM running XPe (XP Embedded) is understandable. This is an OS that is not meant to ever be upgraded, is never on the Internet proper, and if it does, it uses a heavy firewall.

I've seen some ATMs actually end up using plain old XP... then they will eventually fail and will not start up, demanding a valid CD key and activation code.

Of course, the best answer is going with Windows 8.1 Embedded Pro. This will at least give a service life of 5-10 years.

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