I think I mentioned this when the autodesk 'gate' came up. The max cloth system is far better than Maya's, regardless of the IU. Its much faster to do, having seen the videos of the latest version of Max, myself and colleagues did wonder why we'd all bought Maya!!

Max's latest cloth was out before Autodesk was almost there

I also thought that Autodesk should sell separate plugins of Cloth, fur, hair etc for those of us that cant afford Maya Unlimited, also you could just have one version of Maya instead of 2, that way you could just build up your toolkit from plugins as and when you could afford to do so. This would also be ideal for freelancers starting out, whereas large production houses re-write cloth etc for their own engines.

Autodesk I hope you are reading this...

Cheers
Jay