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Re:IRS misses XP deadline, pays Microsoft millions for patches by nthj on Sunday April 13, 2014 @05:09PM (#7583035)
The IRS is not paying $11M for the development know-how to maintain security; it's true that they could probably shop around and find the services they need for much less.

No, they're paying $11M so they can say "We paid Microsoft $11M! What else could we possibly do?" when something goes wrong.

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Re:IRS misses XP deadline, pays Microsoft millions for patches by cmapes on Sunday April 13, 2014 @10:00PM (#7584118)
Sadly that's probably pretty accurate.
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Re:IRS misses XP deadline, pays Microsoft millions for patches by sebastianavina on Sunday April 13, 2014 @10:26PM (#7584207)
threaten microsoft to swith to linux?
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Re:IRS misses XP deadline, pays Microsoft millions for patches by croggle on Sunday April 13, 2014 @11:23PM (#7584350)
Something tells me you did not understand the above comment... He's saying the IRS could shift responsibility based on the fact they paid the worlds biggest software vendor 11mil... Switching to Linux puts the responsibility back in the IRS's court...
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