Thanks for the link.

***Better Integration with Professional Environments
*Realize the added benefit of quickly animating with Poser’s pre-rigged characters inside of host application such as Autodesk’s 3ds Max and Maya, and Maxon’s CINEMA 4D. Play back Poser scenes in other powerful 3D applications for increased productivity and access to pre built, modifiable content.

I don't use any of those listed programs.

**Enhanced Path to Photoshop CS3 Extended
** Populate the Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended 3D Layer with COLLADA objects. Enhance your images with thousands of stock pieces of 3D Poser content available at www.contentparadise.com.

Nor do I use Photoshop.

***Network Rendering & 64-bit Support
*Built on a powerful 64bit render engine offering incredible speed and amazing quality. Get the most out of your hardware and leverage your network to render massive scenes and lengthy animations using the network render queue to distribute render jobs across all your of your networked machines and with background rendering capabilities you can now keep working while you render.

I don't have a network, I have one machine with a 64-bit processor running a 32-bit OS.  So this is not useful to me either.

***Maximum Flexibility with Poser Content
*The industry-standard COLLADA data exchange format combined with content designed and built specifically for Poser Pro greatly enhances the versatility of the already 30,000 plus 3D models available through Contentparadise.com.

I don't need Collada; I have or can model any model I need.

***Hosting Plugins
*Directly host Poser scenes including geometry, textures, animation data, and more in the following applications:
Autodesk 3D Studio Max Windows
Autodesk Maya Mac and Windows
Newtek's Lightwave Mac and Windows
Maxon's Cinema 4D Mac and Windows

I don't have any of those programs.

***COLLADA
**Poser Pro offers Data Exchange with the industry-standard COLLADA format. Gain maximum flexibility by transporting Poser content to applications such as Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended.
Import: Geometry, Textures, Cameras, and Lights
Export: Geometry, Textures, Cameras, Lights, Morph targets, Bones, Shaders, Animation Data

Still don't use Collada nor Photoshop.

***Rendering
*64bit Render Engine
Network Rendering
BackGround Rendering
HDR Image Creation and Export

HDRShop does a fine job for HDR, thanks.

So when is Poser8 going to be released?  Will its lighting system include a specular channel for IBL?