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The IRS' Gates-only computer
It must be running Windows, because Bill Gates complains that the IRS is always getting things wrong when calculating his taxes, which reside on a "special computer because their normal computers can't deal with the numbers."
Bill Gates told a conference in Lisbon that the U.S. Internal Revenue Service has to maintain a separate computer to calculate the taxes on his $47 billion fortune.
It must be running Windows, if it isn't an urban myth (it must be), because Bill Gates complains that the IRS is always getting things wrong when calculating his taxes, which reside on a "special computer because their normal computers can't deal with the numbers."
"I am constantly getting these notices telling me I haven't paid something when really it is just on the wrong computer," he is reported to have said.
I can think of worse problems to have. Maybe the IRS should just switch to Microsoft Money.