{"id":13438,"date":"2014-03-17T12:17:26","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T12:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13438"},"modified":"2014-03-17T12:17:26","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T12:17:26","slug":"will-your-bank-pay-microsoft-to-keep-running-atms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13438","title":{"rendered":"Will your bank pay Microsoft to keep running ATM&#8217;s?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/atmwindows.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13439\" alt=\"atmwindows\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/atmwindows-300x163.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" \/><\/a>Believe it or not, roughly 95 percent of ATMs in the world are still running Windows XP &#8212; and that&#8217;s about to become an expensive problem.<\/p>\n<p>Machine designer NCR says that only a third of banks will upgrade their ATMs to a newer OS before official XP support ends on April 8th, leaving many institutions little choice but to pay Microsoft for an extended contract if they still want support.<\/p>\n<p>At least some banks plan to update, but they&#8217;re facing both technician backlogs and steep transition costs; estimates suggest the big UK firms might pay up to \u00a360 million ($100 million) each to make the leap.<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not your bank joins the modern era, you shouldn&#8217;t be surprised if you end up footing some of the bill.<\/p>\n<p>Source: engadget.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Believe it or not, roughly 95 percent of ATMs in the world are still running Windows XP &#8212; and that&#8217;s about to become an expensive problem. Machine designer NCR says that only a third of banks will upgrade their ATMs to a newer OS before official XP support ends on April 8th, leaving many institutions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13438\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Will your bank pay Microsoft to keep running ATM&#8217;s?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,123],"tags":[4267,8671,8672],"class_list":["post-13438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-atm","tag-microsoft-windows-xp","tag-ncr"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/atmwindows.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13440,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13438\/revisions\/13440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}