{"id":909849,"date":"2025-02-27T11:13:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T05:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=909849"},"modified":"2025-02-27T11:13:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T05:43:45","slug":"elon-musks-doge-finds-excess-software-licenses-in-agencies-more-of-your-tax-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/02\/27\/elon-musks-doge-finds-excess-software-licenses-in-agencies-more-of-your-tax-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s DOGE finds &#8216;excess&#8217; software licenses in agencies: \u2018More of your tax dollars&#8230;\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) recently revealed that many federal agencies hold more software licenses than they have employees. This includes excess licenses for Microsoft 365, 128 Microsoft Teams accounts and Photoshop, among others many of which are either unused or underutilised, prompting reply from Musk himself.<\/p>\n<p>Musk\u2019s response came after DOGE gave the example of General Services Administration (GSA). He reshared the post, announcing that more savings..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) recently revealed that many federal agencies hold more software licenses than they have employees. This includes excess licenses for Microsoft 365, 128 Microsoft Teams accounts and Photoshop, among others many of which are either unused or underutilised, prompting reply from Musk himself. Musk\u2019s response came after DOGE gave the example of General Services Administration (GSA). He reshared the post, announcing that more savings..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-909849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}