That's exactly the message I was in essence trying to get across before. Our workplace won't upgrade to Vista in the foreseeable future. The time involved in training and supporting users who have no previous experience with Vista will be a very time consuming task.

Quite simply, it isn't necessary for the programs and apps that users run on their PCs. Whilst I agree that IT managers and staff may want to take a good look at Vista, I really question whether the early release for businesses is going to generate as much business as MS seem to think.

A lot of the features are going to appeal to home users far more than businesses IMHO and it is irritating the way Vista is broken down into about 10 different versions, if you include the 64 bit editions. Not only will hardware upgrades be necessary in a lot of cases, but most corporate PCs won't be able to fully utilize the fancy effects that Vista has placed so much importance on.

That, plus the fact that most business I would have thought, will wait till at least major bugs have been addressed and probably a service pack brought out will probably lead to a slower take-up of the new OS than MS realize.