Multi-server query sounds cool, could be very nice for consolidating job execution and DBCC info. I'm VERY thankful for separate date and time data types, I like the combined type, but there are times when it will drive you nuts. The spatial data type is very good for people running GIS apps like ArcInfo and the rest of the ESRI suite, which is basically every state, county, and local government, plus forestry, geology industries, law enforcement, etc. It exists in Oracle and DB/2, it was implemented in SQL Server as a varbinary. I think adding the spatial data type will add a lot of third-party value to SQL Server once programmers start working with it.