I just read that 90% of worldwide ATM's are running on the no longer supported XP operating system. Changing them out to the newest system (till they change it again) could cost as much as $700 Billion. Maybe they could leave them alone. Maybe hackers will not find a way to make withdrawals. Maybe.
England's entire Health Care System also runs on XP and for all I know, maybe Canada's as well.
How much will it cost bank customers and taxpayers just because Microsoft wants to change the color of the ponies on the merry-go-round?
Natural human response to put off until tomorrow. They knew it was coming, just like Y2K.
ReplyDeleteReading way too much into it Croft. And just like Y2K, it was a non event.
ReplyDeleteYes, I agree with Kevin. It'll all work out. I, too, remember Y2K because I was the Director of Surgical Services at a hospital in San Francisco that had, at that time, the most active Emergency Room operation of all the hospitals in SF. We spent over a million dollars preparing for the calamity that was to be New Year's Eve 1999. I stayed glued to my telephone waiting for the inevitable call that catastrophe had struck. Not one thing happened that needed surgical intervention. That's not even normal on a regular weekend night!!!
ReplyDeleteMaybe the issue is a non issue, guess its a wait and see.
ReplyDeleteI heard Canada's system runs on TRS80s.
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On Y2K the sun set, and then the rose. And that was it.
ReplyDeleteNo doomsday stuff. Just if someone takes a million out of my account, I might not notice.
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