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"xfile" <cou-cou@remove.nospam.com> wrote in message
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> 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?
> 
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> "Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst(remove)@msn.com> wrote in message
> news:%23DQRlUcEHHA.3596@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> 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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