Thanks for your feedback everyone, I truly appreciate it!

As of now, our timeline has been muddied as we've found some significant compatibility issues with some of our main enterprise-level applications and 2007.

When we iron out the details, I will post the roll out plan our organization decides on (may take several months!). In the meantime, I'd love to hear as many success stories as possible.

Thanks again,
-Ed

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Hi I am interested in this particular line because we are also rolling from Windows 2000 to Vista and Office 2007 very soon. The initial pilot group is 350 people primarily located in two cities, then we will continue deploying to the rest of the 4500 learners in April 2009. We have identified a champion group for each line of business participating in the pilot, and are considering 2 hr. overview sessions on the Windows 2007new Ribbon interface for all low volume users followed by 1/2 sessions on new features in Outlook, Word, Powerpoint and Excel for power users. We plan to supplement all classroom training by using our sharepoint site to host job aids and links to online resources such as the MS resources and Skillsoft online courses. Any classroom training will have to be offsite and delivered by vendors as our classrooms are already booked and we have no in house trainers available to take this on. Has any one also done Vista specific training - one vendor has recommended lecture type training for large groups and my personal thoughts are that can't be very effective...

What I find interesting here is the amount of revenue that will be generated due to this upgrade: training, hardware upgrades, software upgrades, books, dvds, videos, etc.

Also, lost productivity should be considered as well for the transition period.

All of this for a program that produces the same result that its predecessor did, only now at a higher cost.