| Microsoft Windows Vista Cost and Benefit Estimator |
Welcome Microsoft Customers! This tool is designed to help quantify your customer's costs and benefits with Windows Vista. Please note that this is a business value discussion tool and not meant to be a licensing configurator nor a quote generator.
Click here for information about Windows Vista
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Quick Instructions:
Please complete the following questions to the best of your knowledge.
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Light Blue inputs require your response.
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Blue inputs are based on measured averages. They are not required to be changed, but can be if you have better information by simply typing over the value.
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Gray fields are not editable -- they are simply summary information such as a check that as set of percentages add up to 100%
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Where is the Company Headquarters located? |
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What is the Company Industry? |
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What size is the Company? |
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How many total PCs (desktop or laptop) are included in this deployment? |
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How many offices (locations) will be included in this deployment? |
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What versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system are installed?
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Enter the percentage of computers using each version of Windows currently targeted
for deployment. Please calculate this percentage only for the PCs involved in this
deployment. Default values based on Microsoft early adopter data, 2006.
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Windows 95/98
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Windows NT
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Windows 2000
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Windows XP
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Percentage of machines that are:
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Default values based on Microsoft early adopter data, 2006.
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Desktops
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Laptops
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What percentage the desktops to be deployed are managed using Active Directory? |
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Is Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) used to manage desktops and deploy
software updates? |
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