**The day I got the notice that there were 7 reasons, I wrote down my own in a letter to a friend.  I won't post them here (I couldn't if I wanted to) because I don't want to steal thunder from the actual announcements.  I think I assumed all of the "reasons"  would be improvements to the program.  Content may be a great reason to upgrade, it's just not an "improvement".   **

**I have to say that it's funny that I never noticed the lack of multiple undos.  (Well, I noticed it, but it didn't occur to me as something to fix because I'd gotten used to it!)  The instancing is cool, as one of my wishful improvements was for some type of crowd simulation.  (I feel, having used versions 4-6, that maybe I'm not seeing the obvious problems with this program, but rather just the ways around them.)  The one thing I really hoped to get in version 7 is some kind of GPU usage.  I'd like to have, at the least, bumpmaps and stencil shadows in preview, and hopefully someday parallax mapping of the displacement channel like TrueSpace7 does it.  I'm not holding much hope for these features as they've already mentioned the improvement to the preview they made by supporting high res textures. **

XENOPHONZ:  I'm glad you had a laugh at that.  I was running out of time and couldn't find the exact words I wanted.  Of course some people around here will never be happy, what was I thinking?