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Windows ATMs by 2005

Posted by michael on from the blue-screen-of-no-money dept.

An anonymous reader writes "O'Reilly Developer News is running a brief on how the banking industry will be running a stripped down version of windows on 65% of its ATM machines by 2005. On a morning when I'm receiving the latest windows virus in my inbox every five minutes I feel very comfortable with this."

2 of 802 comments (clear)

  1. Think it already exists by Brahmastra · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I've seen an ATM machine with a BSOD. Think Windows ATMs already exist.

  2. other people are already complaining! by garcia · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Why would you want to do this? We have already had people complaining about the use of Windows on ATMs elsewhere...

    Goto such and such a street and look at the screen, it's seriously got the BSOD!

    Excuse me but why, when we already know that there are major security issues with Windows, are we going to use it on ATMs?