Enterprises Waste 28 Percent of Software Budgets on Unwanted Upgrades
A survey of over 2,000 IT leaders reveals that companies are forced to spend nearly a third of their software budgets on upgrades they did not request.
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2 publishers have covered this in 2 articles since 20 Oct 2026. www.theregister.com published first, on 20 October at 14:43 UTC; Ars Technica followed 31h 06m later. The most recent article, from Ars Technica, appeared on 21 October at 21:48 UTC.
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