Quote - DAZ just announced Carrara 7, but that concentrates mainly on DS rather than Poser from my understanding, I wonder how much work it would take to have a Poser import feature added to it, some of the outdoor scenes I've seen with it look pretty spectacular!

What on earth are you talking about? Carrara  has had Poser Import ability since version 4 at least and Cararra 5 & 6 Pro read Poser runtimes natively just not dynamic hair or clothes.