Development of payment services market implies improving self-service terminals and ATMs. These days, many of them equipped with full-color touch screen, and extending the basic functionality often avoids software upgrades without having to replace hardware filling device. Meanwhile, for many owners and manufacturers of terminals is a problem to stop supporting Windows XP, since almost 95% of these devices are still using this operating system.
Manufacturers of ATMs and self-service terminals have long been irksome problem depending on Microsoft. Each device costs from $ 15,000 to $ 60,000, it is a minimum service life of 7 to 10 years, and Microsoft is forcing manufacturers to update the software frequently. Now, moving to Windows 7 and need to upgrade the hardware that will result in additional costs.
Many market players in these conditions are beginning to look towards Linux - free and more secure platform. Before the move to Windows XP, many ATMs operated operating system IBM OS / 2.