You'll get your money – when this bank has upgraded Windows 7... or bought extended support ATM customers have been treated to that most special of sights, a refusal to dispense cash unless Windows 7 gets the update goodness it craves. Normally when this hack visits a cashpoint, the cheery screen offers all manner of exciting options and amounts to withdraw. Alas, selecting one of the more impressive numbers results …
A few years ago, a friend of mine (who, before he left the country was a Barclay's customer pretty much from birth) spent about 40 minutes bitching about the absolutely crap service he received from them. A few minutes later, he asked why I didn't join them as a customer.. I pointed out that apart from the fact I was actually very happy at the Abbey National (as it was then), as I had been with them since I was a kid, and never had any real problems with them (still haven't now, apart from going overdrawn from time to time), he had just spent 40 minutes telling me how crap Barclays were.
If the central OS is on the fritz, because of non-renewed support licensing, and given that this is a bank we're talking about, shouldn't the proper response be a pickax to the screen ?
After all, once the screen is done in, and given that the camera depends on the OS and is, therefor, out of order, that might incite the bank to some effort in getting its shit together again, right ?
I won't forget that these are the people who were happy to deal in the tainted sub-primes and then got paid for their troubles when the whole thing tanked.
Fuck them.
Either one of two things....
This screen is part of a Windows update. Assuming the IT team is managing updates and doing a quality check on them first, why did this get pushed out?
Or, is this ATM connected to the open Internet and simply pulling down updates itself? Seems like a prime Internet target for a cash payout.
Either way stupid IT.
A CashPoint should be running Windows 7 Embedded (similar to retailers running PoSReady 7) flavour of Windows.
In both cases Extended support still good until Oct 2021 and you can go back to sleep for another year and then move the thing to Windows 10 IoT (New name for PoSReady and Embedded).
I'm a little embarrassed, but my company laptop is still on windows 7! I work for a large IT company (Not going to name and shame, but my IP will probably give me away to el Reg) and they thought it would be a great idea to let people do their own migration in the interest of cutting cost. So loads of people still haven't migrated, including me. I have everything ready, I made my backups, I have the install files, just can't be arsed to do it. My manager even suggested doing it during the weekend, but I'm not going to migrate myself in my free time, no bloody way.
So now they've given me a deadline to migrate today. On standby, so I can't be offline for an extended period of time, but I guess that doesn't matter.
I suspect that Sainscrap are having issues with their cash machine network. The one near my work and home have been unavailable for the week. Also, the dodgy one outside the tube station rebooted with XP as others above have noted. Is it a plot by the merchant bankers to stop us using cash by shutting down the cash machine network?
</tin foil hat?>
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