Tatchi, there's nothing wrong with 7 if you can still get it. Wow, Cheryl! "Well, it's all the fault of people making illegal copies of software!" I realize you were saying that with a bit of "tongue-and-cheek" but it goes burn my shorthairs a bit. I mean, shoplifters come into the store(s) and steal stuff. The store can't seem to stop it. Solution? Charge the people who buy things MORE to make up for it. Software companys think the same way. Someone stealing your software? Punish the people who purchase it by inflicting upon them a nuisance and assumption of guilt. Meanwhile, before the first copies have been received by the customers who ordered it, hacked copies are there for the taking on the various P2P sites (and so forth). And, of course, the new version seems to have been met with the most negative comments I've ever seen (just take a look a few forums around and see what I mean).