Yes, I have it installed.

Overall its quite big improvement speed wise over versions 10 and 11.

If you are into technical drawing, the MUCH IMPROVED snapping and vitual guidelines are super.

The virtual segment remover is a real time saver too.

If you have a laptop or need to do org charts and the like its pattern recognition software (via their Grafigo product) is kind of nice too.

A lot of old bugs/performance things appear to be fixed too.

They even have a training CD for beginners ... shades of their good tape they had in there version 3 edition.

>>HOWEVER, Xara is REALLY a different product.

My personal opinion ... if you have needed CorelDRAW in the past and used it signficantly, then you will want to upgrade BUT YOU STILL NEED XARA for all its special, quick interactive tools, onscreen rendering, export capabilties, and, of course, the support from the Talkgraphics and the XaraXone communities which are far better overall than most Corel newsgroups.