I'm still running 6.5. I was fixing to upgrade to 7.0 right before I heard Alias Wavefront was selling out to Autodesk. I guess Autodesk really bummed me out on upgrading, and from what I have heard about the new maya 8.5, Autodesk has done a nearly complete rewrite of the dynamics core, and integration of another programming language in as deep as MEL. I can easily see Autodesk slowly rewriting Maya all together in future releases. I think support for the older versions is a must have. I realy don't want to swith to a different app until I know where Maya is officially headed.