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Hi,

I wonder if they've detailed items for TCO because $507/yr seems to be low,
so I wonder how they calculated it. Or maybe they just compared the support
cost?

Thanks for sharing if you have additional information.


"Eric Furness" <ericfurn@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> 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-