Just found out Windows XP still runs 1.2% of ATMs worldwide in 2024

I was reading a banking security report from last month and it said there are still about 95,000 ATMs running XP. Can you believe that? I remember when they ended support in 2014 and everyone joked about it, but turns out the joke never really ended. Does your bank still have those old blue screen ATMs or did they finally upgrade?

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mary8365d ago

Remember the panic when they said Y2K would crash everything? Turns out the real problem wasn't new systems failing, it was old systems refusing to die. I see this everywhere now. My grocery store still runs its register software on a machine that looks like it belongs in a museum, and the gas station down the road has a pump that sounds like a dial-up modem when it starts. The thing is, if it works and it costs money to change it, nobody wants to be the one who pays for an upgrade. So we just keep patching and hoping.

nora_barnes5d ago

@mary836 we switched to Linux on old hardware. Still works fine 12 years later.