It's interesting to see some of you think Autodesk's Maya is worst than Alias' Maya. I actually think Autodesk does a good job of cleaning up some bugs/weakness that Maya had for years, and instead of putting out fancy features that most users won't use, Autodesk concentrated on some aspects that improve the software like the completely re-written render layer/pass, animation layer, enhanced poly functions (learn from max), nCloth/nParticles, Python, etc...
I know many people hate Autodesk for the same reason people hate Microsoft, monopoly (壟斷), but personally I like Autodesk's Maya development direction more that Alias'.
Just my cents.