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Besides the problems with content, Poser 8 is constantly crashing so I think it's a "windows millinium" a worthless program put out to make a buck, and to hell with user!

Well your experiences with it constantly crashing and content problems don't seem to be shared by all, and I don't particularly agree with the anger with which you stated your obviously emotional reply...
I'd say relax, they're gonna take care of it. This isn't almost-bankrupt-and-desperate Curious Labs and Poser 5 here, or Shade-Obsession E Frontier, this is Smith Micro, a company with a great deal more resources and a reputation to uphold.
Since you joined here only fairly recently, you probably don't get that analogy...

But not to sound like I'm fanboy-praising it or them, I do agree somewhat with the Windows Millenium analogy. Unless they add some more new features along with the SR 1, Poser 8 looks to me more like a .5 upgrade. Poser 7.5. I'm probably a little biased when it comes to things like that though, because my primary app is Lightwave and Newtek always adds ridiculous amounts of free point upgrades to each version, and a whole mess of point releases with all kinds of added tools. In their world, Poser 8 would have been Poser 7.5.1 and would have been free for Poser 7 buyers and had all the Poser Pro stuff in it too.
Then again, it IS cheap. You should see the Maya crowd, totally pissed off because they're spending thousands on Maya 2010, which hardly adds anything new, but a few compositing tools Autodesk needed to find a home for because nobody's been buying.

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Anyway, I guess I'll find out for myself soon enough. I managed to talk my girlfriend into buying it so I can continue saving my money for the full version of Maya when my educational license expires. ;-)
And for Poser Pro 2010, which I'm sure will be a helluva lot closer to what I'd like to see Poser become.

Bagginsbill, please don't sabotage the SR like you did the GUI.
We all should have seen that coming though - nobody is as generous and helpful as you've been without having some evil ulterior motive. ;-)