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by BOOMY 27 Mar 2014 12:08 am
So MS finally announced they will no longer be supporting windows xp.
Why does this matter?
Well aside from XP>>>>>> all other OS (
); what is a worry is that most ATMs in Australia run XP. What does this mean for our security? If it doesn't affect our security then what does it mean for banks; hiring people to maintain/support their (now outdated) system?
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by GreyWizzard 27 Mar 2014 07:51 am
The banks should try Windows 7
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by Madmya 27 Mar 2014 12:34 pm
Windows 7
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by itch 27 Mar 2014 01:14 pm
Windows 7 is the best OS ever. Fact.
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by GeneraL CyberFunK 27 Mar 2014 03:18 pm
I'm getting used to Windows 8.1 and there are some features of it that make it fucking incredible.. but Windows 7 was/is the best OS. Then XP.
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by Twiztid Elf 27 Mar 2014 09:29 pm
Banks putting profits and cost savings ahead of security and technology updates? Well I never!
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by unfnknblvbl 29 Mar 2014 09:31 pm
I'm surprised they use XP - I thought they all ran OS/2 or eComStation.
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by Rorschach 29 Mar 2014 10:21 pm
Must say, with a skin on it Windows 8.1 is pretty cool. Light on resources and quick to boot, only big issue so far is driver support.
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by pilonv1 30 Mar 2014 10:08 pm
Very much love Windows 7. I'll move to 8 eventually but 7 is great
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by BOOMY 31 Mar 2014 02:14 am
I'm surprised they use XP - I thought they all ran OS/2 or eComStation.
They might, I'm just parroting controversy from RRRFM's byte into it program. my go to line when I get used to people's psuedo-tech-support is ''it would work if you had win xp'' because it has a special place in my heart; the xp>* comment was partly ironic, its a fucking dog by win 7 standards.
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by unfnknblvbl 31 Mar 2014 07:09 pm
Hah. I still use XP for some things. As good as Win7 is, it's pretty poor when it comes to home studio audio recording.
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by Misly 31 Mar 2014 07:34 pm
Skip every second version of Windows.
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by unfnknblvbl 02 Apr 2014 03:05 pm
That's my theory too. It's like the Star Trek film theory.
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by GeneraL CyberFunK 02 Apr 2014 04:16 pm
Yeah.. Windows XP was fucking awesome for home studio stuff.. I really miss the "What You Hear" sound option. Windows 8 has nothing of it.. fuckers.
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by GreyWizzard 02 Apr 2014 08:13 pm
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by Lepo5 02 Apr 2014 09:40 pm
GeneraL CyberFunK wrote: I really miss the "What You Hear" sound option. Windows 8 has nothing of it.. fuckers.
So right
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by Scullibundo 03 Apr 2014 09:06 am
MS just revealed that they're bringing the start menu back for the next update.
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by Ambrose Burnside 03 Apr 2014 09:37 am
So will Windows 8.1 Update 1 be what Windows 8 should have been all along, or is the start menu coming in an even later update?
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by unfnknblvbl 03 Apr 2014 03:34 pm
An even later one.
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by Rorschach 03 Apr 2014 06:19 pm
Can't understand why Metro wasn't just integrated into the Start menu as above. Similar to the way Android expands folders. I don't mind Windows 8 at all, very light OS
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by unfnknblvbl 03 Apr 2014 08:33 pm
I expect so much more from Windows these days, after using Android for so long (and I'm sure iOS users feel the same). There's just so much that it does that seems so natural that I get frustrated when Windows doesn't do it.
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by Ambrose Burnside 04 Apr 2014 10:17 am
unfnknblvbl wrote: An even later one.
I was an early adopter of Windows 8 and have seen it improve in leaps and bounds over the last couple of years, and I love the vision of essentially one OS across desktop PCs, laptops/tablets, phones and consoles (and I own a desktop PC, Surface Pro, Windows Phone and an Xbox 360), but god damn they're slow at bringing it all together. Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 are still essentially Beta products that have been out for several years now
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by Hercy 04 Apr 2014 01:52 pm
I hope they get rid of this bullshit requirement to have a MS account to login to your computer in Windows 8.2
); what is a worry is that most ATMs in Australia run XP. What does this mean for our security? If it doesn't affect our security then what does it mean for banks; hiring people to maintain/support their (now outdated) system?
