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It'd be difficult to estimate and would be varied by user environment. The
more appropriate TCO estimation will be those for business systems since its
configurations and installed applications would be relatively the same.

But I will speculate it'd be high for a normal user initially getting into
the OS including new hardware needed, finding software that may not work
properly and then need to upgrade, and the learning curve - which is the
major one but usually being left out.


"Jeff Gaines" <whitedragon@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
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> 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 :-)
>
> --
> Jeff Gaines