The death of Windows XP will impact 95 percent of the world’s ATMs

If they are inconvenienced by having to upgrade from Windows XP to continue support, why the heck are they migrating to a different legacy Windows version (non-current)

With all the headache and expense of this, I don't feel sorry for them if they didn't (yet) learn their lesson! I hoped/wished that banking would have the sense to use a customized *nix server for this sort of thing that can be supported in-house as long as there are computers and people who work on them (where you don't have that kind of access to self-patch windows)

A question that occurred to me reading this: ATMs aren't connected to the internet, are they? (Seems like that would be very tempting for the bank in terms of convenience, but very dangerous.)