I agree with you fully there, MS should never release products that are not complete, but hey they do it all the time and for some reason, ppl accept that and still continue to buy thier incomplete products, and I guess it because its done in the absence of anything else out there (scratch that, probably cause you need the increased performance of 64bit and all your apps are in sql2000 and can't be ported to something else, so your stuck with buying an incomplete product).