But will they take YOUR or MY MONEY to continue support of our XP machines running critical business functions that can't be upgraded to Win7? OH, NO!! That would be bad, right, Microsoft??
FUIRS
FUMS
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But wait....That’s my money.
Its a damned good operating system.
Microsoft is happy to take the money. After all the Feds know a good value when they see one.
really agree, upgrade.
It would cost far less to do an enterprise installation of win se7en.
Or force them to use Surface Tablets as punishment for not preparing.
Microsoft used to be in the target of Democrat politicians now after taking its campaign money these Democrats give Microsoft much taxpayer money.
Bill Gates leaned how to make the system work for him.
I’m guessing the Koch’s are being attacked like Microsoft was is because they aren’t giving Democrats more campaign money.
Seems it would be cheaper to upgrade to Win7...in the long run.
Just out of curiosity I invoked Microsoft Update on my XP box, which had already gotten its “final updates” a few days ago. It still had Bing Bar available and permitted me to apply it.
It’s probably cheaper to do this than it is to take the IRS boxen forward to another version of Windows.
They could consider using Linux, I guess.
It wasn’t procrastination...it was a well-planned pay-off. The latest installment in the lucrative “create-a-crisis” Government game.
Who to root for in this one? The IRS or Microsoft? No good guys here.
OMG now XP becomes the 3rd, the other 2 you can’t escape, Death and Taxes....
I know in some organizations the software they use will not run on Window7 or 8. So they get stuck until the “other” user application software gets replaced or upgraded.
I run a mixed network at home because my kid’s schools use XP.
Amazing - most government computers transitioned through Vista and onto Win 7, yet more than half of IRS computers are still running XP. Massive incompetence at work here - that and the “diversionary forays” into illegally hindering Conservative organizations. Computers are the lifeblood of modern day business - it seems a bit criminal for such as the IRS to neglect the necessary upgrades.
Microsoft’s version of a protection racket.
Gotta think up some way to keep the dough flowing
I work for a major Fed group, and we don't get funded like the IRS... and even WE are all on Win 7.
The IRS should try vaulting into the 20th century sometime.
Yet I’ve overseen WinXP—>Vista and Vista—>Win7 upgrades on 100% of my systems in my Army units since DoD forces us for primarily security purposes (although the move to Vista screamed of the right palms being greased).
Maintaining XP is a major security problem that only involves the tax information (which is 100% PII [personally identifiable information]) of nearly every person in the country. What could possibly go wrong?
Hey Microsoft, since you are supporting the IRS, how about sending us some of those fixes as well. After all WE are paying you for the IRS support.
The company I work for does a refresh every two years. We lease computers, including individual laptops. We get support from an outside vendor. On a rolling basis, everyone’s laptop is turned in for a newer model, with the leasing company moving applications and data off the old machine, including the desktop. One is encouraged not to keep data on the hard drive, but use the network drives. They system works pretty well, but is somewhat disruptive since you need to learn all the latests wrinkles in Office every two years.
Disconnect IRS computers with XP from the internet. No more facebook, no more porn downloads... make government work unappealing.