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.
xp could have been patched. windows in general is security nightmare. source code is probably long gone. the underlying data should be exported to a new platform and the app rebuilt, screw porting an old 32bit app.
XP had flaws fundamental to base code that caused the security holes, you don’t patch that. And you’re still ignoring how companies themselves aren’t caring enough about their own IT security, MS can do nothing to fix that.
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.
xp could have been patched. windows in general is security nightmare. source code is probably long gone. the underlying data should be exported to a new platform and the app rebuilt, screw porting an old 32bit app.
microsoft is still asshoe.
XP had flaws fundamental to base code that caused the security holes, you don’t patch that. And you’re still ignoring how companies themselves aren’t caring enough about their own IT security, MS can do nothing to fix that.
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.