Mark, this is incredibly frustrating. IT won't roll out 1750 knowing that a new release is due out, but you keep announcing delays of a new release. Meanwhile we have a non-ArcMap user base (large) that is increasingly dependent on access to basic GIS data. We're not in an ESRI testing lab, we have computers with very restrictive hardware and software bottlenecks due to corporate policies, T1 connections that are firewalled down to 128K, so all the "Bling" web services, ArcGIS online, and 3D "extras" really aren't in high demand. Explorer desktop is a great tool for us to deliver enterprise GIS products to lower-tier GIS consumers. I suspect that many posters in this thread share the same issues. Like a previous poster, all we want to do is push out feature classes and shapefiles so people can do their jobs. They're not going to sit in their (service/patrol) vehicle and wait 2 hours for 1m resolution air photo to load in 3D over a broadband connection. They're just not interested in that. Is there a threshold at which all the extra speed and features, which are really used by a small portion of Explorer users, can be shelved to a new release and the rest of us can move forward with our (ESRI-Based) GIS architecture build-outs?