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What does - TCO - really stand for, anyways?

Story: Microsoft refuses to release study challenging Munich Linux successTotal Replies: 1
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BernardSwiss

Jan 23, 2013
2:02 PM EST 		I used to think this TLA meant Total Cost of Ownership -- but that clearly can't be right. At least that's plainly not what it means when Microsoft uses the term.

Perhaps "TCO" stands for: Totally Contrived Outcome ?

or maybe for: Typically Cynical Obfuscation ?

(I'm tempted to mis-quote Inigo Montoya: “You keep using that TLA, I do not think it means what you think it means”)
caitlyn

Jan 25, 2013
12:44 PM EST 		Totally Controlled Outcome, as in controlled by Microsoft with the results guaranteed in advance regardless of the data.

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