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Re: [LUG] OT: Advice for Windows XP Users

 

On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 11:05:16PM +0000, Julian Hall wrote:
> There was a BBC article the other day saying that banks were going
> to pay Microsoft $1m to continue support for their ATMs on Windows
> XP until they've migrated off it.
> 
> http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/03/19/are-the-worlds-atms-ready-for-april-xpiration/
> 
> Not the article I was loking for but broadly the same points.

This is not the BBC either, but probably what the BBC used as its
source:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/14/us-banks-atms-idUSBREA2D13D20140314

(So it's far more than $1m: £50-60m in the UK alone.)

Martijn.


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