I have been informed that any POS system that is processing credit cards and is using the Win XP OS on BOH computers AND FOH POS computers will be in violation of PCI DSS compliance rules as of April 2014. This effects a huge # of POS systems and my clients are not hearing anything from the credit card processors regarding this issue (or the POS companies as well). I'm wondering just how end-users are going to respond to the fact that their POS system(s) will be Non-PCI compliant in 7 months. Is this something our clients should be concerned about? Are POS end-users really going to replace all their POS stations? Can end-users downgrade their XP OS to POS Ready 2009 as that OS expires in 2019 or beyond?
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XP Expires in April 2014 & PCI DSS concerns
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And migrating from XP to 2009 would be great, if your POS vendor supports it. My concern with stuff like this is - what happens if it breaks? Even if everything works correctly on the upgraded OS, will the technicians be able to fix/replace terminals and PC's if they crash?
PCI-DSS is concerned about supported products. The thought seems to be that as long as there are still patches coming out vulnerabilities can be fixed. At the start the rule was "2 versions back", but things change so fast that seems to have been modified to "out of extended support".
Still, I don't think we are doing this. We've been doing a lot of upgrades to RES 5 lately. We've also been selling mTablets fairly well for such a young technology. People really seem to like them... and they of course require 5.2 to run.
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