For those of you who have yet to spend much time with Denali, how do you plan on getting up to speed on it, and when? Will you try to learn more before it is released, or will you wait until it has shipped?
We are still on 2005. Heck, a poll last year at the local user group here in the Dallas area revealed that most companies were still on 2005. The fact that we are in the middle of the worst recession since WW2 means that my company and almost all of our clients aren't going to jump on new, expensive software just to be on the bleeding edge. The fact that except for huge enterprise companies or companies with no existing legacy SQL Servers, there isn't any overwhelming compelling reason to spend the money or time on Denali at this time. By the time I have to deal with it, I'll be buying the Inside Denali R3 books from the used bookstore.
As for new features and such, I guess the blogstars can occupy their time promoting them.