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Re: Estimated TCO or Vista?
On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 11:08:13 -0800, "Jeff Gaines"
<whitedragon@newsgroups.nospam> wrote:
>If this is going to start a war then please ignore/delete it.
>
>Does anybody know if the TCO of Vista has been calculated for an average
>user. I did my second install today as part of the process of trying it
>before I use it in earnest. Two of my existing apps installed and worked
>without an issue (XanaNews and Hotmail Popper). I have overcome some
>issues by turning UAC off and running most things as administrator but I
>have the following issues:
>
>TheBat! is a 'known issue' - although I have got it running as
>administrator.
>UltraEdit doesn't hold its settings unless its run as administrator.
>Office 97 bombs out when applying SP2.
>Virtual CD won't install (thanks for the tip to try Magic Iso)
>F-Prot a/v won't work on Vista.
>I haven't tried Diskeeper light (perhaps I will try later).
>
>I don't run the latest versions of most apps, if they do what I want I
>stick with them, but if I'm average what would it cost me to replace these
>apps, £500 or so?
>
>Does make me wonder if people might decide if they've got to replace loads
>of apps perhaps now is a good time to try a Mac?
>
>At least all my own apps running in VS2005 work, I must be doing something
>right :-)
A story in the local paper here gave average tco of $507 /yr, as
opposed to xp at $545 /yr.
-grain of salt-
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