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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. Here is the breakdown: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  2. Re:depends on the company by TykeClone · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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  3. Re:FUD by jZnat · · Score: 3, Funny

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

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  4. Wow! It's really worth it! by rlp · · Score: 3, Funny

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

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