IRS Misses XP Deadline, Pays Microsoft Millions For Patches

[DEAD7]

"When Microsoft terminated official support for Windows XP on April 8th, many organizations had taken the six years of warnings to heart and migrated to another operating system. But not the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. Only 52,000 of their 110,000 Windows-powered computers have been upgraded to Windows 7. They'll now be forced to pay Microsoft for Custom Support. How much? Using Microsoft's standard rate of $200 per PC, it'll be $11.6 million for one year. That leaves $18.4 million of their $30 million budget to finish the upgrades themselves, which works out to $317 per computer."

 

[DEAD7]

Govt. I swear.

 

[无名的]

The government is riddled with technology. I used to use this archaic system that was the graphical equivalence of DOS and the speed of .


A system used on a daily basis that was of critical importance.

 

[MikelArteta]

 

[DaddyTime]

Too busy watching all that gold in Fort Knox huh?

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

Pathetic

 

[Liquid]

This country and it's refusal to adapt and change is mind blowing to me

 

[Domingo Halliburton]

The government is riddled with technology. I used to use this archaic system that was the graphical equivalence of DOS and the speed of .


A system used on a daily basis that was of critical importance.

my mom works for the navy and they still have old files on microfiche or whatever its called....i mean I'm sure its backed up digitally but they still have those fukking microfiche things

 

[Easy-E]

lolsmh

 

[You Win Perfect]

This country and it's refusal to adapt and change is mind blowing to me

america's infrastructure is

but we have the latest weapons technology

 

[IAmGettingAMailOrderBride]

Doesnt the government have like quantam internets and stuff?

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Doesnt the government have like quantam internets and stuff?

The government is not behind on tech.....Not even close.....Its just the govt civilian jobs that the will not spend money on......

M$ and the IRS will work something out......I doubt if they pay the numbers stated in the article

 

[JT-Money]

The government is not behind on tech.....Not even close.....Its just the govt civilian jobs that the will not spend money on......

M$ and the IRS will work something out......I doubt if they pay the numbers stated in the article

The government is usually way behind the private sector when it comes to technology adoption overall. Mainly because they have so many systems to deal with spread out across the country. And the fact they constantly hire and fire contracting firms that perform these upgrades.

 

[ltheghost]

American government fiscal philosophy....Buy at the lowest level and have the lowest level people operate it. Sounds like Microsoft just got some easy money.

 

[Detroit Wave]

air force went from XP to Vista when Windows 7 was poppin and new