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IRS Misses XP Deadline, Pays Microsoft Millions For Patches

Posted by Soulskill on from the your-tax-dollars-at-work dept.

An anonymous reader writes "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."

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  1. Audit time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    So the IRS missed a deadline they knew was coming... I wonder what they would do to any of us in a similar but different situation?

  2. Re:see where your taxes go by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 5, Funny

    Their custom distro will be called Red Ink Linux and its mascot will be Tux's evil twin, Tax.

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  3. Re:see where your taxes go by allaunjsilverfox2 · · Score: 3, Funny

    'cause it's not Year of the LIRSux Desktop

    You got me there, I spent 5 minutes trying to research the word LIRSUX. Then it hit me! You must be referring to LIR6. Which is a fairly confusing, yet true statement. A leukocyte immunoglobulin-like receptor 6 desktop doesn't exist yet. I'm not sure why anyone would want to base a interface on a chemical, but I'm sure with enough work and determination, you will achieve this goal.

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  4. Re:see where your taxes go by Opportunist · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sure it's not going to be called Red Tape Linux?

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