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I heard the EXACT same stuff in 2001 regarding Windows XP. The desktop monkeys were convinced that they had to use the classic desktop and remove all the new UI features.

Instead, they were ordered to get actual users and conduct actual usability tests. Guess what? Actual end-users (the real reason we have jobs) loved it. All of the UI enhancements stayed.

You'll be a lot more effective as an enterprise-whatever of you keep firmly in mind who your customer really is instead of making rash judgments for them based on your own prejudices.

I don't entirely disagree with you. Perhaps I am set in my XP ways... However, I don't feel the 2k to XP was as drastic as what I saw yesterday. For me, it was like starting all over again because there were so many differences. Easy right clicks I use to get places were different of nonexistent, normal everyday stuff I do to get places in the OS were not there... for me to put Vista on my network, it would be a lot of work. A lot of training and a lot of hardware upgrades as drivers are not readily available etc... I just don't see this as being practical in my environment... In fact our VPN software is also not compatible... there will be a lot of catching up my developers and vendors... I sense it will be a few years yet until vista is mainstream... I understand there are other enhancements that would be better like security, firewall, user leves access rights etc but to implement this Vista is no easy task...