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Re:End of Windows XP support puts 95% of world's ATMs at risk by vertex-four on Thursday March 20, 2014 @11:08AM (#7435957)
Some do, some don't. I've definitely seen ATMs which run standard XP (and more that run OS/2...).
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Re:End of Windows XP support puts 95% of world's ATMs at risk by pjbrunet on Thursday March 20, 2014 @11:29AM (#7436126)
Upvoted for OS/2. That was OS/2's claim to fame back when I interned there. And OS/2 could run Windows apps, so you could be using OS/2 without knowing.
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Re:End of Windows XP support puts 95% of world's ATMs at risk by eli on Thursday March 20, 2014 @11:12AM (#7435989)
I'm sure that's true (and Linux and Windows NT etc), but the headline and lede of this article strongly suggest that 95% of ATMs run a Windows OS that will be lose support next month. That's just not true.

(And frankly, I'd be a little suspect of any numbers sourced from a company in the business of upgrading old ATMs.)

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Re:End of Windows XP support puts 95% of world's ATMs at risk by leoc on Thursday March 20, 2014 @11:25AM (#7436086)
This article http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2334577/banks-negot... suggests that the problem lies (at least partly) with other bank computer systems which are running vanilla XP rather than the ATMs themselves which may be on XP Embedded, and that it is a substantial problem, with big UK banks apparently cutting special deals for extended support. EOLing WinXP seems to have turned out to be a nice little source of revenue for Microsoft...
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