NEWS CATEGORIES:

NEWS ARCHIVE >>
SOFTPEDIA REVIEWS >>

Home / News / Microsoft

Microsoft

Gartner: Vista Won't Significantly Decrease TCO Although Microsoft claims to reduce IT operation costs from $542 to $202	By Marius Oiaga, Technology News Editor 4th of October 2006, 10:08 GMT Adjust text size:


Michael Silver, Research VP at Gartner wrote in an entry on the Gartner Blog destined to Windows Vista that the influx of technology represented by the upcoming Microsoft operating system into corporate environments will not be sufficient to achieve a high standard of management and a consistent cost reduction. As Microsoft is introducing a strategy to push Vista into the corporate ecosystem, emphasizing the business side of the application in addition to the customer side, in order to catalyze the adoption of OS upgrades, the company is claiming a TCO reduction of 63%. The Redmond Company is looking to deploy Windows Vista onto 20% of enterprise machines in the first year of availability. "One of the claims that Microsoft made to reporters was that Windows Vista will enable companies to manage their users better and reap the savings of better manageability in addition to any inherent savings Windows Vista provides. Although Microsoft's total cost of ownership (TCO) reduction claim (reducing IT operation costs from $542 to $202, or 63%) is probably aggressive to begin with (we estimate that moving from a typically managed to a locked and well-managed XP desktop can reduce IT operations costs from $576 to $377, or 34.5%," commented Silver. He also added that total costs of ownership do not include migration and management costs.

Rating:

Good (3.9/5)

10 vote(s) so far

Read by 1,408 user(s) | Add comment | Link to this article

Subscribe to news |

Print article |

Send to friend

© Copyright 2001-2008 Softpedia
Contact:

SEARCH THE NEWS ARCHIVE :

Today's News | Yesterday's News | News Archive

MORE RELATED ARTICLES:

Microsoft Presents Expression Interactive Designer CTP

Update on the Windows Vista Start-up Sound

Update on Interim Windows Vista Build 5728 Availability

Windows Vista Help and Support

Quick Zoom on the Windows Vista Desktop and in Explorer

Windows Vista RC2 Coming October 6

User opinions:

No user comments yet.

Be the first to express your opinion using the form below!

Share your opinion:

SUBMIT PROGRAM \| ADVERTISE \| GET HELP \| SEND US FEEDBACK \| RSS FEEDS \| ENTER NEWS SITE \| ENGLISH BOARD \| ROMANIAN FORUM
© 2001 - 2008 Softpedia. All rights reserved. Softpedia™ and the Softpedia™ logo are registered trademarks of SoftNews NET SRL.	Copyright Information \| Privacy Policy \| Terms of Use \| Update your software \| Archive