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:depends on the company

[TykeClone]

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