Microsoft

Ok this post has NOTHING to do with taxpayer's money. However, for the sake of being able to share my amazement with the Ballmer Quote, I've found a vague way to tie it into the presumed purpose of this blog and have described it at the end of this post. But for a mind blowingly good time, continue:

Microsoft's CEO, Steve 'Mini Bill' Ballmer on the recent deal struck with Yahoo(bbc):
we will create [...] real consumer choice in a market currently dominated by a single company

Yeah. Because we ALL know how adverse Microsoft is to a market dominated by a single company.

OH, AND BY THE WAY:
The agreement rolls Yahoo's Search into the new Bing search engine. Yes, Ballmer wants you to believe that by eliminating a search engine altogether, he is providing more search engine choices. Most of Yahoo's engineers will be fired, only the sales and marketing staff will be spared.

While the [pretty much a] merger of Yahoo and Microsoft doesn't really directly cost the Federal Government money, we can all be assured that Microsoft themselves directly cost the government and any business using computers money on a regular basis. If they spent more time and money on making a better software suite than they do hanging onto their monopoly, we'd be a lot further along with our computing technology. Imagine a world where the government and private enterprises don't have to hire an entire IT staff just to handle the problems that come up with the software used to operate computers (not the applications we actually use to do our jobs, but the software we use to turn our computers on).
Government IT...

THIS is whyipaytaxes.