Vista itself may not have been crap, but the whole Vista experience certainly was. In addition to the artificially lowered requirements, drivers were a huge pr

Vista itself may not have been crap, but the whole Vista experience certainly was. In addition to the artificially lowered requirements, drivers were a huge problem. Because they changed the driver model, drivers frequently weren't available (at least at first) and when they were available they were frequently buggy. That may not directly be Microsoft's fault, but if your Vista is blue screening, you don't really care who's fault it is. You can see the same with with corporate IT departments: many of them decided not to upgrade to Vista. Why bother when Vista has marginal improvements with lots of bugs? Instead they stuck with the rock solid XP and waited until Microsoft (and the vendors) fixed things (Win7). I expect corporate IT will view Windows 8 the same way: Metro is a big headache they'll want to avoid. They aren't going to be deploying Metro apps (at least not at first) and they'd probably disable Metro to avoid confusing users. If Microsoft is hoping to make Win8 the corporate standard, they'll have to do it via tablets. Presumably if everyone is using Win8 tablets, they'll eventually want Win8 on their desktop/laptop. Otherwise, I'd expect many IT departs to skip 8 and wait for 9.