I think autodesk will not offer a crossupdate to max when they don't want to wast energy anymore in promoting the same product in two different ways or having two devteams.
There is an upgrade path from VIZ to MAX. You only have to pay the differnce between the packages. The development team that works on VIZ are also MAX developers, so there are not two completely seperate teams.
Maybe there will be one more viz update when they put the missing radiosityfeatures of max5 to viz4, but at the moment i see my money invested in a dead horse.
Hard to say, but the point of VIZ was to have a package specifically for the architecutural market. That includes a price point to match. Most do not want to pay for the animation tools in MAX that they will never use. I too have often wondered about the viability of VIZ now that they are so closely tied together now, but I suspect there will be more architecural additions that will futher seperate the two. What I would like to see is one package with different modules. You buy MAX and can purchase the Animation module or the AEC module etc. Of course this is probabaly much easier said than done.
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