the purpose of the announcement was not meant to give away features for the next version...so please dont ask about that cause, well that's corel's baby...and we all know that companies like to keep specifics to themselves. I would not have posted the message at all if the interest in dropping the earlier os' wasnt so very important to many users of bryce. The brycetech site, on a daily basis, on average, gets more emails than all 3 of the major bryce sites gets posts in one day. I'd actually hazard that only ~40% of the people who email me come to any of the forums. (and yes, I do nag the to go to them all :P) Brycetech gets emails from students (college, middle school, and high school), professors and teachers, hobbiests as well as professionals. It is required reading in well over 20 schools and colleges 'computer graphic's' classes worldwide. I collaborate with individuals in studios, some who even use bryce for all the graphics they produce. brycetech.com was largely involved in a european television show that did all of its animations in Bryce. whats more, I was emailed by a training employee of corel about using it as their 'training' site..(what that means, I have no idea..but the permission was asked to print and hand out the tutorials to the employees). So yes, I know its valuable..its loss would be a huge impact ..but I also know more about the entire picture of what this os dropping will mean to the entire community than ANY other person who uses bryce. and let me say that this potential OS' dropping will affect at least 40% of the current users..perhaps more. Assume for the sake of argument that it drops earlier mac os' as well, then we're looking at around 60% (and no, I did NOT just say its dropping earlier mac os, I said 'for sake of argument') this very simply means that the next version will HAVE to be much more expensive to make up for those that wont upgrade..and then that additional price, may even stall some of those who want to upgrade. The brycetech site was started many years ago. At that time it was for a little known, very powerful app that was easy to use and low enough in cost to be attainable by everyone, yet robust enough to produce some amazing images. Practically noone knew how to use it...and bt very much served the purpose of showing how. I have very much enjoyed interacting with fellow bryce enthusiasts (sp) over the years. By and far, the bryce/poser community is made up of unbelievably great people. With this next proposed change, bryce ceases to be what brycetech was started for...no longer cheap, no longer for anyone, and no longer an app that I feel I can justify the time, effort, and money supporting. I wont believe in it any longer..so c'est la vie. I could most definately see the dropping of earlier os with a bryce 7..but not with the next one. there is simply NO justification to say that it will be anymore stable, render faster, or be better on everyone's computer if they use the latest os. Its perfectly fine on my system..and I use ME. XP will never be on a computer I own...however, I have no problem at all with 2000. the future of bryce6 is very uncertain. Perhaps they will grab that bean counter up that says its cheape to drop the earlier os and have them justify the statement..or perhaps theyve already made up their minds and so it will be as it will be. the future of brycetech.com is however sealed. someone may buy it to keep it online, but I wont be part of it if the earlier os are dropped...just cant justify it to myself. shrug live will go on BT