Hi,
Thanks and they did ignore the learning curve - the biggest item for TCO,
and may I suspect the original source is provided by the product provider?
"Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst(remove)@msn.com> wrote in message
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> 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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