Smith Micro's websites are all over the place, it's nearly impossible to find consistent links between their various random acts of websites....after an hour of searching...I actually found a real Poser 8 website beyond the crappy www.smithmicro.com online website, which is a store, and the somewhat better http://my.smithmicro.com that has a lot more info than the main site, which has almost no links to this place

but:  http://Poser8.smithmicro.com is the best link for officleal Poser 8 info

It also includes info about Poser Pro 2010 and the beta program.

There is very interesting news about Poser Pro upgrades to Poser 8 and how that will apply additionally to Poser Pro 2010.

This blog explains it:

http://poser8.smithmicro.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi

Long and short, if you are a Poser Pro user, you can upgrade to Poser 8 and that price will be applied to the upgrade price of Poser Pro 2010, above and beyond what the normal upgrade would be from Poser Pro 7 to Poser Pro 2010....

I.e. you can mid upgrade.

The mid upgrade will also let you in to the Poser Pro 2010 beta program this fall.

Poser Pro 2010 is scheduled for Q1 of 2010.