So far I haven't got one opinion:)

Is it vastly better because it makes faster running optimized code?
Standards aren't as big a concern for me as is my groups productivity, with
varying levels of skill,
I like them to have a good IDE the one that came with VS6 has been fine. But
in some instances it can't
display variables values or it opens files not directly part of the project
and tries to step through them which is
not necessary, these are files time tested by MS.
We'll probably upgrade but it may still be a while, i'm thinking another
year or two.