What a Vista Upgrade Will Really Cost You

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?

Comments

Here is the breakdown:

[Anonymous Coward]

$2000: New Hardware
$ 900: Vista License
$2100: Solid Gold Mouse

Re:Here is the breakdown:

[hypnagogue]

So long as I've got my solid gold mouse and my rocket car, I don't need anything else. I'm not greedy.

Re:depends on the company

[TykeClone]

Or more than 640K of memory - that should be enough for anyone :)

Re:FUD

[jZnat]

Now that's Microsoft-funded FUD, so I'd rather not see that report.

Wow! It's really worth it!

[rlp]

Yeah, but look at the benefits you get - a spiffy new CPU hogging GUI and tons of great new DRM!

Re:FUD

[RAMMS EIN]

``So because such an analysys, no matter how objective or thorough, might tend to favor Microsoft, you'd rather not take those factors into consideration?''

Of course. Are you new here?

A solid gold mouse is only $2,000

[patio11]

The last $100 is for the MousterCable.

Re:FUD

[Anonymous Coward]

Do I like to ask questions that I then answer immediately? Fuckin' A.