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According to Microsoft Japan, Resona Holdings, an operator of several banks and other subsidiaries in the country, completed "one of the largest" Windows 8 deployments ever made in Japan, and in doing so beat Microsoft's much talked-of April 8 support deadline for both Windows XP and Office 2003.
The group, which is behind the Saitama Resona Bank, Kinki Osaka Bank and other group companies, completed its two-year migration of some 30,000 Windows XP client terminals this February.
"We decided to migrate straight to Windows 8, and there was no opposition to the approach of leveraging the latest products to boost efficiency," said Tetsuya Shiratori, executive officer and general manager of Resona Holdings' information technology planning division.
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30,000 is a lot of terminals. I think the Japanese Bank picked Windows 8 instead of 7 because 8 can run pretty well on 1GB of RAM, 20GB hard drive and a 1GHz CPU while Windows 7 requires a faster PC with 2GB of RAM and 2GHz CPU. I bet those bank terminals/ATMs are not really fast since they are mainly use to deposit, and withdraw money for users.
I'm surprise at the speed that the Japanese upgraded 30,000 XP terminals to 8 by finishing upgrading them all by this February.
The group, which is behind the Saitama Resona Bank, Kinki Osaka Bank and other group companies, completed its two-year migration of some 30,000 Windows XP client terminals this February.
"We decided to migrate straight to Windows 8, and there was no opposition to the approach of leveraging the latest products to boost efficiency," said Tetsuya Shiratori, executive officer and general manager of Resona Holdings' information technology planning division.
Read More
30,000 is a lot of terminals. I think the Japanese Bank picked Windows 8 instead of 7 because 8 can run pretty well on 1GB of RAM, 20GB hard drive and a 1GHz CPU while Windows 7 requires a faster PC with 2GB of RAM and 2GHz CPU. I bet those bank terminals/ATMs are not really fast since they are mainly use to deposit, and withdraw money for users.
I'm surprise at the speed that the Japanese upgraded 30,000 XP terminals to 8 by finishing upgrading them all by this February.
