A new study says that the banking industry will have sixty five percent of their ATMs running a stripped down Windows instead of OS/2 by 2005. Analyst Gwenn Bezard concluded that, "the banking industry is ready to scrap IBM's OS/2 operating system, which powers most ATMs today. They would prefer Windows, a platform they consider 'open' in that it is compatible with their internal corporate networks. Also, it's so ubiquitous that they can add features to all their ATMs without having to write multiple pieces of code for different machines." Bruce Schneier, a security company official, states that ATM do not operate online and are therefore not vulnerable to malicious viruses and internet attacks. No word on the blue screen of death.
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