IRS test their own medicine, it will pay Microsoft a million people for the support of Windows XP

Generally, the internal revenue service is payable at this time of year, but Uncle Sam is going to be the pockets of someone more this season because of his attachment to Windows XP. In the case where you've not heard, support for XP formally arrested April 8, meaning that Microsoft already will not provide support or security updates for the venerable operating system. However, government computers may not be vulnerable, so the IRS will pay Microsoft millions of dollars for custom help to keep their machines safe and functional. Currently, more than half the Agency still XP despite Microsoft tell the world which would cease support for the operating system to PC six years ago in 2014. The plan is to have all machines of the IRS in Windows 7 at the end of the year - and at that time the watch begins marking the transition to Windows 8. No emergency, however, Microsoft is committed to support Windows 7 until 2020. Government delays begin!

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