As always, the new version is amazing! Especially text styles (making Illustrator / Indesign finally completely superfluous) and the select-by-color photo tool (making the crappy Mehdi plugin superfluous).

I've switched from an IN HOUSE developed graphics application (!) to Xara a few years ago, and I haven't looked back once.

When I work for other agencies at their offices where everyone uses Photoshop, I frequently get requests like "Hey Alex, could you just do me a favor in Xara, this takes too long in Photoshop...", and people then sit behind me and watch in awe how I do ridiculously complex tasks (for Photoshop) in a matter of seconds in Xara.

Thank you, Xara.