# Enterprises keep buying software upgrades that IT thinks will make things worse

**Published:** October 21, 2026
**Author:** Scharon Harding
**Source:** Ars Technica — AI
**Language:** en-US
**HTML:** https://aiqazaqstan.com/en/articles/enterprises-keep-buying-software-upgrades-that-it-thinks-will-make-thing

Enterprise-sized businesses spend, on average, 28 percent of their software budgets on unwanted upgrades, migrations, and licensing changes. Often, those firms' IT heads think those changes are detrimental. Those results are according to a survey of 2,018 chief information…

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