IRS Misses XP Deadline, Pays Microsoft Millions for Patches

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CommanderFrank

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The one government agency you would certainly expect to know the importance of meeting a deadline would be the Internal Revenue Service. Obviously, someone in the department didn’t get the memo that XP was going south. Your tax dollars at work. :D

Using that average -- and the number of PCs the IRS admitted were still running XP -- the IRS would pay Microsoft $11.6 million for one year of Custom Support.
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According to Crenshaw, the IRS had previously said it would take $30 million out of its enforcement budget to finish the migration.
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Ha!
 
Sadly, we all know that this translates into "the taxpayers pay Microsoft $11.6 million for one year of Custom Support." :rolleyes:
 
Color me surprised. The government is inefficient. *rolls eyes*
 
A[h],another thread where people don't understand economics.
 
Custom support means things like....

"I can't get my Active Services Directory to add this XP machine to the forest and act as a proxy server"

And Microsoft still having an expert on hand who can handle such things and attempt fixes.

Patches are not guaranteed though.
 
The govt is good at one thing. Never getting things done on time or ever.
 
Not really a surprise. The federal government is paying my company millions for patches on a program for a single file storage server for a program we haven't worked on in a decade. The last patch build we did was 7 years ago, and the last time we sold the program was 11 years ago. There is only one person left in the whole company that knows anything about this old program, and he's about ready to kick the bucket. (He's 62, a smoker, and about 450lbs, and in very poor health because of it. I don't see how he's lived this long.) They just refuse to move forward and pick up a new program. To migrate all their stuff to a new system would cost about $1.2 million. It's one office with 30-35 users. Yet they still pay $2 million per year for support on this program. They're paid up until 2016.
 
Sensationalist headlines, they mostly planned to give Microsoft the extra contract while they fully migrate to a new os.

I don't know, nor do I think the article writer knows if this is cheaper.
 
Isn't it great when people who think others are mistaken don't offer an constructive correction to help their fellow man?
 
To be fair, they had more important things to do, like target conservative groups so that Obama could get reelected.
 
And in other completely unrelated news....

Social Security, Treasury target taxpayers for their parents’ decades-old debts

The Treasury Department has intercepted $1.9 billion in tax refunds already this year — $75 million of that on debts delinquent for more than 10 years, said Jeffrey Schramek, assistant commissioner of the department’s debt management service. The aggressive effort to collect old debts started three years ago — the result of a single sentence tucked into the farm bill lifting the 10-year statute of limitations on old debts to Uncle Sam.
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Galvin said:
The govt is good at one thing. Never getting things done on time or ever.
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and more importantly, spending a shit ton of money it shouldn't have to.

We could all keep more wages if the government wasn't such an inept and frivolous spender.
 
The more people pay for extra XP support, the more likely those patches are going to end up released onto the internet for the rest of us to eventually obtain.
 
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