My last job was supporting desktop and server installations at a major financial. Our group was the front line support for close to 1000 workstations. I completely bypassed Vista, even when we were asked to evaluate the test images of it. My input was that there was no reason to upgrade to it. We were running XP, there was a ton of inhouse developed & vendor apps with new releases coming out all the time, and still ran well on the XP/Windows 2003 images we had helped built and deployed.
There was no real reason to upgrade to Vista. I saw the OS as way too bloated and consumer/home user oriented to run in a business environment.
Hopefully Windows 7 versions designed for businesses will be more worth the upgrade. But I still wouldn’t look to put it into production for at least a year after release or the first SP1.
Yep, that seems to be the consensus -- and I feel the same FWIW. It won't be a production OS for at least a year.