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What a Vista Upgrade Will Really Cost You

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the big-bucks dept.

narramissic writes, "James Gaskin wrote an interesting article this week about what he recons it will really cost organizations to upgrade to Vista. Gaskin estimates that each Vista user will 'cost your company between $3,250 and $5,000. That's each and every Vista user. Money will go to Microsoft for Vista and Office 2007, to hardware vendors for new PCs and components, and possibly a few bucks to Apple for those users jumping to a Mac.'" Any sense of how realistic those figures are?

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  1. Downtime? by krell · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Does this include several days downtime for when the Vista machines have to be shut off and the old XP machines dusted off when someone discovers an extremely serious security flaw in the new OS?

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  2. I'm a Mac guy... by EWIPlayer · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ... and even I know those figures are absolute crap.

    It's comforting to know that the FUD isn't all coming from MS :)

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