[antiRepublicrat]

I can only imagine informing 10,000 computer illiterate users that they will be required to learn a completely new OS.

I think that's one of the reservations with Vista. There's a learning curve between XP and Vista GUIs, and if you're going to do that, you might as well get a better OS as well.

[L98Fiero]

“I think that’s one of the reservations with Vista. There’s a learning curve between XP and Vista GUIs, and if you’re going to do that, you might as well get a better OS as well.”

Yep. That’s what was driving the increasing use of terminal services in our shop. The bulk of the users ran legacy OS and used their PCs as “dummy terminals”. Outside of management, new equipment was Wyse terminals with Remote Desktop configured instead of PCs and logged into our terminal server farm for applications.

From Group Policy, resource management and upgrade standpoints, it was far easier to manage 20 servers than 1000 PCs.