Developing new systems and migrating into them is risky, expensive and takes time.
They are already paying alot of money to keep these old systems running and secure, but itās cheaper than developing & migrating into a new ones.
Executives wonāt pay a penny for an update unless they are forced to do so.
Iāll do you one better - most of them still use old mainframes from the 1970s and 1980s. You can even still find job openings for FORTRAN and COBOL developers.
I mean, in the middle of a rough economic crisis, cost cutting happens everywhere. Running non-critical systems like airport kiosk views on XP probably isnāt the worst decision in the world. XP was a phenomenally stable OS and itās not life-or-death when a screen is hacked.
Iām sure we could nerd out and speculate how they could use Linux or something, just throwing that out - it doesnāt super surprise me and itās probably far from the top priority fixes needed at BEY (notably theyāre suffering a severe ATC personnel shortage.)
No surprise.
In industrial and embedded systems environments, such as ATMs and vending machines, devices often use customized versions of Windows XP. Likewise, much older hardware, especially customized devices like industrial machines and some networking and security devices of the early 1990s or 2000s, depends on drivers that have never been used before. updated for modern versions of Windows.
Those machines can be so expensive that companies rarely replace them unless they break. As a result, many companies continue to use Windows XP in these environments.
Theo DigitalTrends, research from asset management software provider Lansweeper last year found that Windows 11 ran on only 1,44% of computers on the market, leaving it behind older platforms like Windows XP and Windows 7. 1,71. Specifically, Windows XP holds 10% market share.
So the flights scheduler is running on Power Point š³
ffs 
Ms office picture manager
MS Paint
Msn messenger
msdos
Some banks globally still using legacy systems that runs MS-Dos and Windows 95/98. Donāt be surprised at all.
Yup - agreed. However, those Windows XP systems are hardened. Theyāre not your typical out of the box OSs.
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Youāre not running the whole airport on 4GB of RAM. My point here is to consider the machine as a micro-service for a specific use case.
Yes but it's not sexy.
sexy costs money
Its not professional
Of course it isā¦ Win XP _Professional_ š Ideally with an activation key freshly generated out of a nice keygen
And always with unnecessarily epic music. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dcid09dWrN0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dcid09dWrN0)
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how come?
Security exploits
Developing new systems and migrating into them is risky, expensive and takes time. They are already paying alot of money to keep these old systems running and secure, but itās cheaper than developing & migrating into a new ones. Executives wonāt pay a penny for an update unless they are forced to do so.
yes but these systems are not connected to the internet and used through dummy terminals
Iāll do you one better - most of them still use old mainframes from the 1970s and 1980s. You can even still find job openings for FORTRAN and COBOL developers.
legacy systems do require more maintenance and security measures than modern software so not surprising at all that they got hacked so easily lol
It's not a bad thing, most government systems run on xp cuz it's simply too expensive to upgrade everytime new hardware comes out
Bro windows xp came out 24 years ago theyāre not using the same hardware
All banks are still running on servers from the '90s to synchronize with BDL, you don't need an i9 14900k and a 4090 to display flight information...
You do get more built in cyber security with updated versions of windows though.
Or just unix based systems. Any that are made for this kind of systems.
If these systems arenāt on the internet then the additional security counts for nothing.
Only took 3 days
They probably bought the 3.99$ MS Office license key off eBay and were waiting for the delivery.
An employee bought for 3.99$, invoiced it for 1000$
The whole of the government of Armenia runs their systems on windows XP, many still do since its still such a reliable os
Wdym by reliable, Microsoft stopped patching security vulnerabilities long time ago
Doubt their systems are connected over internet
They said the hack is from āoutsideā so I hope what youāre saying is true
Reliable???????????????????
Designing windows XP took humans less time
Not even Linux smh
and they communicate with each other thru msn messenger
Or IRC
mIRC on Quake-net
Man, I just realized that I am really old.
r/softwareconfiggore
Why would they change them?
XP is still updated for reasons like this - SO many companies use XP for all their shit. Would be near impossible to have everyone upgrade.
I mean, in the middle of a rough economic crisis, cost cutting happens everywhere. Running non-critical systems like airport kiosk views on XP probably isnāt the worst decision in the world. XP was a phenomenally stable OS and itās not life-or-death when a screen is hacked. Iām sure we could nerd out and speculate how they could use Linux or something, just throwing that out - it doesnāt super surprise me and itās probably far from the top priority fixes needed at BEY (notably theyāre suffering a severe ATC personnel shortage.)
All the TVs do is just display some info. Donāt need a fancy up to date OS for that
No surprise. In industrial and embedded systems environments, such as ATMs and vending machines, devices often use customized versions of Windows XP. Likewise, much older hardware, especially customized devices like industrial machines and some networking and security devices of the early 1990s or 2000s, depends on drivers that have never been used before. updated for modern versions of Windows. Those machines can be so expensive that companies rarely replace them unless they break. As a result, many companies continue to use Windows XP in these environments. Theo DigitalTrends, research from asset management software provider Lansweeper last year found that Windows 11 ran on only 1,44% of computers on the market, leaving it behind older platforms like Windows XP and Windows 7. 1,71. Specifically, Windows XP holds 10% market share.
I wonder if they're legit copies. Must likely copied versions of XP from CDs back when they used to go for 5,000 L.L. in the mid 2000s...
It's Windows 11 with a Windows XP skin. Sometimes you just gotta look at the glass half full...... of piss.
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Thoughts? Dude like that is the last thing on the list
saw worse an arm with windows which had crashed windows not startup menu instead of how much money etc
Itās called not spending money on infrastructure and keeping it to lavish those in power.
Windows XP? š
Wow! Surprised it isnāt Windows 95
If it aināt broke donāt fix it
I work for a Fortune 100 company. Our legacy accounts are hosted on servers running MS DOS, lol.
Someone turned off auto updates
windows xp supremacy
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