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I've always been surprised to find all the ATMs in my country run different versions of windows (XP, Vista, 7)
Like even from purely an accountant point of view, if you're using some shitty proprietary software why wouldn't you implement it in an OS that doesn't require commercial licences???
Then again the entire software stack of any established financial institution is just spaghetti code and things held on with duct tape and prayers
Embedded systems are frequently Windows based. It’s always a little surprising. Also, it’s downright terrifying how many of those embedded systems rely on a version of Internet Explorer that’s been deprecated for 20 years.
Banking systems running COBOL on IBM mainframes. So archaic that even hackers can't understand the code, and if they did the bank would pay them voluntarily tp sort it out, and the hackers would say no, because COBOL, eww.
I actually have a friend who is the old meme -- his mother is a sysadmin for a small regional bank and he's been training under her for years to take over when she retires. No one in the open market can even begin to understand what she does.