IRS Can't Update Woefully Out-of-Date Windows Servers Because It Can't Find Some of Them

Nextgov: The Internal Revenue Service couldn’t transition 1,300 of its workstations from Microsoft Windows XP to Windows 7 because the agency couldn’t find them all, according to a report released by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

The report describes IRS’ uneven attempt to upgrade 110,000 workstations before Microsoft discontinued technical support for the XP operating system. The report also noted several thousand servers are still running Windows Server 2003.

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