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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. depends on the company by Phantom+of+the+Opera · · Score: 1, Troll

    There is no need for something more than 1 GHz for standard office and even programming use.

  2. Exactly... by E-Rock · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't think this guy's going to be out doing next business day repairs for free. That's going to end up being a very expensive $200 savings for the company.

  3. Re:FUD by megaditto · · Score: 1, Troll

    Windows should be gone as a server OS.

    Unless you are forced to support legacy solutions (outlook etc.), there is simply no good reason to still use Windows instead of *NIX on a server.

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