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Re: Estimated TCO or Vista?
If I remember right, it derives from the cost for an enterprise to deploy
and manintain and doesn't mean much to consumers. The greatest savings come
from the new wim file format and the tools for editing it prior to
deployment.
"xfile" <cou-cou@remove.nospam.com> wrote in message
news:uVBhYzbEHHA.4928@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> 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
> news:25ujm2huqt3h1h00v3ka0uq48f6cimrn83@4ax.com...
>> 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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