IRS Misses XP Deadline, Pays Microsoft Millions for Custom Support: The IRS isn't exactly known for playing fast and loose with deadlines—your deadlines, that is. But when it comes to its own, its apparently a lot more willing to take their chances. In this case, that means paying millions of dollars to keep running Windows XP long after the deadline has come and gone.
As we all know, Microsoft cut its support for XP on April 8, a date it drilled into our heads over, and over, and over again. Nevertheless, April 8 came and went with the IRS still having failed to update over half of its computers to Windows 7. Of course, with tax day less than 24 hours away, the IRS can't exactly risk leaving any part of its system vulnerable, so it'll fork over millions to Microsoft for custom security and support.
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