ATM + Windows
According to a study that Celent Communications published last
week, most ATMs in the United States will be running a Windows OS by
2005, a scary proposition for anyone who's seen the Blue Screen of
Death or other crashes while doing such innocuous things as copying a
file or printing. But, hey, I'm sure Windows is up to the task of
accurately dispensing money and properly debiting my checking account.
Apparently, the banking industry is finally getting ready to dump the
aging and rarely updated IBM OS/2, which is the most common ATM OS
these days, and move to Windows, which is more compatible with the
networks that banks now use