Robert Scoble asks for other names for longhorn, but missed the obvious -- longyawn. So, DRM that makes my pictures fuzzy, no command line (Monad has been delayed), no WinFS (guess what -- it's delayed). So, why should I upgrade if it's ever shipped?
That's the kicker -- even Robert says that you shouldn't upgrade unless you're going to get something compelling in return, and no one appears to have worked out what that compelling thing is yet.
Update: I think this quote from David at Microsoft Australia kinda sums things up:
[Describing a product in a state of flux] ...the software internals are changing more regularly than Longhorns feature list...
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#1 Robert Scoble
Yup, you're right. Got a lot of work to do to convince people it's worth buying.
The good thing is we haven't even started yet since the redesign/recoding of Longhorn. There's a lot to come over the next few months. It'll be interesting to see what you think after you get a good look.
#2 Michael Still
It will be interesting to see it when it comes out -- Windows 2003 was a clear improvement over Windows 2000 for instance, so if that scale of improvement happens, then you're on the right track.
I guess some of the problem is that the only features we're hearing about at the moment are the DRM-like features, which are never going to be a sales attraction to the consumer. Microsoft needs to remember that it's customer is the end user (be they at home or some sort of corporate), not the big lobbies like the movie industry.