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He basically said "Don't do Vista". There is going to be massive issues with this one.

He's right. I'm no Microsoft fanboi but I will say that the Microsoft product people should consider is Office 2007. Despite trying to screw the open standards pooch (like they always do), if you're willing to learn their new layout, worker productivity does go up with it. It's more oriented toward what-you-want-to-do, a more user-centric design. So we have to give ol' M$ some credit in 2007.

Office 2007 is a product that shouldn't be ignored. Vista is.

I'm really liking Office '07. As you said, there is a learning curve involved, but I think MS actually listened to its customers for a change. Once you get through the curve, it is very much an improvement in productivity.

Vista....well, what is there to say really? For the most part, it's eye candy. MS seems to be taking the marketing approach of hitting the home consumers on this one. I know of no corporate IT departments that even have evaluations scheduled for Vista. Server 2003 is still a long time in the pipeline, and without some major AD additions to take advantage of Vista, and Longhorn still at least a year away, there is no incentive at all to move the desktop environment over to Vista. Right now it's all downside...added hardware cost, productivity hits while users adjust to the learning curve, limited support, etc, etc. I think if we take the time machine to one year from today, we may start seeing some evaluations taking place, but after a year in the pipeline and XP will still be the predominant OS in the corporate world.

Completely agree...

If I get my computer back up and rolling, I might actually go out and buy a copy of Office '07--I was impressed by the betas, and it looks like the final copy is just as good as what I have now (Office '03)...

Then again, I've generally been happy with MS-Office.