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[Malcolm Miles]

On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 11:58:43 +0930, you wrote:

>It really does depend on your upgrade cycle.  But if Vista comes
>out this year then it will be another two years before deployment,
>just based on the time needed to organise these things. So that
>is an entire SA agreement without an upgrade.

Hopefully it won't take two years to start deploying Vista.

>A software site license shouldn't run any risk of costing more
>than individual licenses.  But this one can.  Very strange.

You don't have to sign an agreement that includes Software Assurance,
and the agreements aren't per-site but per-PC.

>> All the thousands of PCs at work currently running XP will happily run
>> Vista, no need to upgrade. No pretty Aero Glass UI but that is not a
>> great loss.
>
>Then why upgrade?  If you are not allowing users to have
>Administrator access then Vista offers very little over Xp.
>The enhanced graphics is the major feature.

There are many new features that are much more beneficial to a company
than the enhanced graphics.

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Best wishes,
Malcolm