re: IRS computers crashed 10 days after House committee sent letter asking...

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With all that said, I would be shocked if they weren't buying new machines and just putting XP on them (because they apparently aren't spending their IT money on backups, amirite?)

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As I posted, this is what my company is doing. We were going to go with 8, but when the company heard all the complaints, they decided to wait and we still have XP. I was talking with one of our IT guys last week, and he told me that we should start getting new machines with 8.1 in the near future. But, everyone (about 1,800 employees) will make the switch.

Now, given that Lois Lerner was the HEAD of the Exempt Organizations division -- a pretty high-up post -- do you think that she was working on an "old" machine, or is it more likely that she was always the first one to get the "newest and bestest" model when it rolled off the assembly line?