Wednesday, November 13, 2013

34k bank branches at risk as MS to end Windows XP support

..........However, banks believe that the issue is being "blown out of proportion". According to the chief technology officer at a bank, all financial institutions have strong internal security systems, which would not be breached even if Microsoft stops supporting Windows XP. “Absolutely nothing will happen if banks continue to use Windows XP even after Microsoft stopped supporting it. This issue is being over-hyped. There is a process of replacing each PC every five to seven years, so when we do that, the operating system will automatically get upgraded. The threat is not high enough to pay the kind of costs involved in migrating from one operating system to another,".......

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