What about DRDOS, GEM, Ventura Publisher and Timeworks then? I've never used DRDOS, but wasn't it just a competitive version of DOS and not a graphical interface? GEM, I seem to recall, got sued out of existance by Apple for being too close to their interface (would have been smarter if they bought it out and leased it as a PC interface). Wasn't Ventura, in that timeframe, still a DOS app that could do a print preview to show what it would look like printed, but wasn't a visual WYSIWYG application that could be modified live? It wasn't that there wasn't competition on the PC side as much as it wasn't as good. If I remember right, MS paid Apple to settle, once and for all, their interface look and feel suits. I can't remember if they kicked in some extra $ to help them or if that was part of the settlement. Considering that a number of Mac's most successful software applications were written by Microsoft (most of the PC Office suites started as Mac programs), MS didn't have too much to worry about who won the OS wars. I don't want to get too hung up with the analogy. I was focusing on only one aspect of the comparison--which was a company dominating a field it exploited (Apple with it's graphical operating system--which really was innovated at Xerox; and Curious Labs with the first widely accepted consumer-oriented figure posing software) and then not having the foresight to see where the real profit could be made (with Apple not exploiting their operating system in the PC environment; and CL not getting into the figure creation business). There's a lot of other aspects of the companies that bare no relation to the analogy or to each other. Even if there isn't an antagonistic atmosphere between the two companies, and I really don't know whether or not there is, Poser and DAZ Studio will eventually have incompatible formats if for no other reason because they can. I still haven't had a chance to try Studio, but doesn't it already have its own native format and a different filing system for content?

My visual indexes of Poser content are at http://www.sharecg.com/pf/rgagnon