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The estimated payroll costs for Windows Vista are estimated to be 10B. Now consider the costs for every Windows version released since 1985, and include R&D/mar
by fosk 14y ago
The estimated payroll costs for Windows Vista are estimated to be 10B. Now consider the costs for every Windows version released since 1985, and include R&D/marketing expenses.
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- dangrossman 14y agoBut that's an operating system, not an application. You've got to give credit to the IRS spending more on one application than Microsoft spent on their OS.
- jrockway 14y agoOSes are not particularly complicated. I could imagine that tax laws require a lot more code (and tests) than dragging some windows around and scheduling processes. (Neither are easy, of course.)
- lurker14 14y agoThat "one application" was software+hardware tasked with managing millions of hand-written paper forms. The electronic version of tax filing was far cheaper, and launched successfully.