ergo, a big portion of the taxes paid by US citizens will need to pay for the support to microsoft

The IRS is an agency of the US which is not an American citizen who often ignores the existence, but the 'Internal Revenue Service plays a key work: the collection and organization of citizens' yesstyle taxes.
The little curiosity of which we speak today is precisely the IRS and Microsoft: according to well informed, despite the big Redmond has already announced six years ago, the end of support for Windows yesstyle XP (materialized last April 8) in 2014, the leadership would have turned a deaf ear, and probably would not even alluded to start the transition.
Engadget fact states that "more than half of PC agency still has XP, although Microsoft has told the world that it would cease to support it in 2014 already six years ago." So, given the particular sensitivity of the data managed by the machines, it was decided not to take the risk and pay us millions yesstyle of dollars to get support "extended" for Windows XP.
All computers IRS should migrate to Windows 7 later this year, but remains legal the question: why companies like the IRS - which is just an example and is not the exception - prefer to spend so much money to support an operating system 13 years old, rather than upgrade their machines (also the hardware side) at a cost definitely less?
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ergo, a big portion of the taxes paid by US citizens will need to pay for the support to microsoft windows xp until the end of this year, to purchase new PCs and to pay Microsoft for the purchase of new software licenses. Therefore, not only in Italy that is wasted so the money "bestowed" by taxpayers