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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. I have to say by Phantom+of+the+Opera · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It sounds like Vista's pretty pathetic.
    I have a box I got for a 10$ lunch. Its 400 MHz and is more than good enough to be a web server and simple development box (running BSD). I'm not ever going back to windows. My job uses 100% linux, my "fun" box is a mac and my server is BSD. There is no longer anything remotely compelling about windows for me.

  2. Besides Sanity? by JoshDM · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I've only got 26 points left after seeing that Shoggoth last week.