Mike, this I know: Draw 7 remains the fastest version because Corel had just bought Xara at that time and they incorporated some of the Xara code into it. I did time trials against 3 through 6 at the time and I was astonished at the speed improvement. 8 and 9, of course, have additions that slow them down.

So it makes perfect sense that the same people who like Xara seem to have come to a screeching halt on the road from Draw 1 to 10 at milepost 7. I'm not one of those, since I use Draw as a page layout program and the pagination features introduced in 8 have become essential to what I do for a living. I'm simply using a lot more RAM than I was using three years ago.

As usual, I'll upgrade to 10 as soon as the first service pack comes out and I expect it will work fine with NT, the god of operating systems.