atm xp

An ATM at a bank in Tbilisi, Georgia stopped working just because the Operating system installed in ATM (windows xp) was not activated! The pop up shows that only 5 days are left which means that machine was working for 25 days (30 day trial) without activation. If xp is not activated after install, it shows warning several times but here in ATM case the warning message popped up only before 5 days are left. This means the guy who installed Xp on that machine set the reminder to “remind me after 25 days” and then forgot to activate. I think that windows xp is not just right to be used in ATM machines, either Microsoft should make a different version of OS for these machines or much reliable operating systems like Solaris should be used.

Photo: zparks.lv (illustrated by me)


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