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Total cost of ownership: disgusting spin
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 09 2013 @ 09:51 AM EST
Since when can a mere user buy and own the software?
All you end up is with a license. thats all.
"Ownership": humbug!
"Cost": no doubt.

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TCO/T (Total Cost of Ownership/Transition)
Authored by: mcinsand on Wednesday, January 09 2013 @ 02:30 PM EST
For the transition phase of going from Windows XP/Vista/7, training/learning
time is part of the expense; hardware is another. Has there ever been a new
version of Windows that did not effectively require additional hardware
investment? Someday, some bean counter will figure out that transitioning from
one version of Windows to another is not really any more difficult than going
from Windows to KDE, GNOME, XFCE, etc. HOWEVER, going to Linux, especially with
a light desktop manager, would enable putting off hardware investments for a
good while longer.

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TCO, total waste of time
Authored by: globularity on Friday, January 11 2013 @ 03:39 AM EST
The amount of time I have wasted this week. An old XP box running essential
software. Tried to make a virtual machine out of it. Got the image imported it
into the VM manager, windows being the junk that it is blue screened on boot.
Used a corporate license disk to recover, Asked me for the key, no key on the
box, used magic jellybean to get the key off the box. No joy tried another disk
for which I had the key, the junk went into cyclic registration requests and
needed to be power cycled. In the mean time I have an image running on ESX but
the windows based VM manager does not appeal. I would not have to do any of this
if it were not for the way windows software installs that makes it difficult to
move machines. Linux can be time waster as well but windows beats it every time
from the broken software installers to the malware and difficulty changing
hardware. The recovery console doesn't even support regedit.

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Windows vista, a marriage between operating system and trojan horse.

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