How about the fact that at least DAZ Studio forced a number of people to actually upgrade from their ancient Windows 98 to Win2000 or XP- and realize the concept of what advanced graphics cards are for. I was amazed to see how many were using crappy old OS's yet expecting good graphics performance! It seems that being FORCED to change made them realize how BAD their previous experience was. If nothing else, Daz Studio Alpha was a much needed wake-up to the "hobby-users" to move on to better performing software upgrades. DAZ isn't going away. Some of the people in this forum seem to have no concept of what else is going on in the big, wide world. Poser users only see a part of what DAZ does. Poser is a small fish pond, not the Pacific Ocean!