What are major incentives to upgrade to D2009 (Unicode excluded)?

Question

I\'m a hesitant upgrader when it comes to development tools. For roughly half of my product I still use D7, and for others D2006.

The truth is, although Unicode supp

Answer 1

Nick Hodges posted:

Top Ten Reasons to Upgrade From Delphi 7

They include:

1. Live Templates
2. History Tab
3. Dockable/Customizable IDE
4. VCL Designer Guidelines
5. New Tool Palette
6. Refactoring
7. Generics
8. Anonymous Methods (Closures)
9. Unicode Support
10. Ribbon Controls

In his Conclusion he said: "the hardest part about writing this article was limiting it to only ten"

and then he lists 24 other things (not counting Intellimouse twice).