I confirm. Used to work on those along with other POS/vending equipment. Ran across Windows ME and even 4.0 NT. Also the usual crusty old proprietary DOS forks, OS/2 offshoots and ancient unix kernels. It's a shit show. Don't even get me started on the hardware. Last I worked this field was 2015 and we still carried diskette drives (Used at least once a week)
one of the major banks in Australia uses XP still... when i saw them using it I was like is this serious? Isnt it open to huge risk because there are no updates for it anymore?
Imagine being so invested in an old platform with all your software and having so much responsibility for everyones money and all your systems are running on XP.
XP is a security nightmare and if they handle all that money it’s hard to believe they can’t afford one dude to go over the code and successfully port it to another OS. They’re being cheap, it’s the only reason. If they don’t like newer Windows they have other options.
It also has security holes miles wide. Companies really aren’t switching because they have zero priority for secure IT and changing would represent spending money.
Looks like a famous forum where people sell hacked contents.
couple of months ago a guy was selling a VM of a bank ATM. They run on Win Vista
I confirm. Used to work on those along with other POS/vending equipment. Ran across Windows ME and even 4.0 NT. Also the usual crusty old proprietary DOS forks, OS/2 offshoots and ancient unix kernels. It's a shit show. Don't even get me started on the hardware. Last I worked this field was 2015 and we still carried diskette drives (Used at least once a week)
Edit: Win XP is still everywhere
one of the major banks in Australia uses XP still... when i saw them using it I was like is this serious? Isnt it open to huge risk because there are no updates for it anymore?
Imagine being so invested in an old platform with all your software and having so much responsibility for everyones money and all your systems are running on XP.
They're scared of upgrading. The software developer is long gone. It still works. Microsoft is the asshole.
XP is a security nightmare and if they handle all that money it’s hard to believe they can’t afford one dude to go over the code and successfully port it to another OS. They’re being cheap, it’s the only reason. If they don’t like newer Windows they have other options.
If the app was developed for xp it will probably break in some way if you update
Yep. My favorite part was seeing the splash screens for the real OS come up during boot before launching whatever front end was being used.
Thats because XP actually works
It also has security holes miles wide. Companies really aren’t switching because they have zero priority for secure IT and changing would represent spending money.
True, probably the best Windows OS