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Vista is not a compelling upgrade. (1) Peformance issues, ones that even a more powerful PC does not quell (continuous desktop searching without pause, continues paging even when no activity, 2 big examples). (2) No drivers for 'legacy' devices - in general, anything purchase as little as 1 year before Vista released does not have a driver for it. (3) Confusing - Microsoft was making baseline design decisions less than one year before release - big example: they wanted to use "saved searches" instead of physical folders for things used to be called "My Pictures", "My Documents" etc. - and in the final release sometimes you are referring to saved searches instead of real folders. They changed standard folder names to remove the spaces so you didn't have to "quote" them in scripts - when they could have instead made them equivalent so both would work. (4) No compelling must have features.
Why would they kill XP? Because they are in "monopoly" mode. They think whatever they decide will be forced on all of us. What they don't realize is that the alternatives to Windows will benefit - Apple Macs being the most obvious beneficiary with its ease of use benefits.
Oh, and about that corporate part - I am in a corporate world, and unlike what was expressed prior - we are not ready to jump from XP to Vista just because Microsoft says.
Finally, IE8 beta has few features over IE7, and the main thrust is to repair some of the problems caused by IE7 (I supervised the testing of >40 browser based APPs wtih IE7). So expect Microsoft to do the same thing with the successor to Vista - ie. Windows 7. [P.S. Did you know that: Vista's first two letters, "VI" are the roman numeral equivalents of 6 - and Vista is Windows 6?]
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