A recent email offering for a special price on DNS included:

IMPORTANT: Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10.1 is the only release of Dragon designed to run on Windows 7. As a result, previous versions of Dragon may fail to install, will not operate properly, and most importantly, are not supported on Windows 7. If you plan to upgrade your operating system to Windows 7 now or in the future, you should take advantage of this limited opportunity to order Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10.1 at this very special price.

The offer, unfortunately, expired 31 December 2009.

I have never used DNS, and the offer was based on my purchase of an upgrade version of Nuance OCR a little over a year ago. The Nuance OCR was surreptitiously deleted (without informing me and without asking permission) when I installed a new HP multi-purpose machine that included IRIS OCR.

Since the IRIS program does perform better-integrated conversion of scans to editable PDF than the prior program I haven't made an issue of the deletion; but it appears to have something to do with an HP "assholeier than thou user" attitude (also apparent in some other evidences). It might also suggest that the Nuance (and DNS?) program might have some difficulty "playing well with others." (???)

For refernce, for those interested, the offer showed a list price for DNS 10.1 of $199.99 (US) and was offered at $99.99. This may give some indication of what sort of "bargains" are available for those who qualify for an upgrade or other special offer, or might find a discounter from whom to purchase DNS(?).

The features claimed for DNS 10.1 were extravagant; but since I haven't followed claims made for prior versions I can't comment on whether anything new (other than Win7 compatibility) is actually claimed.

John