The Dorico team spent a lot of time thinking and discussing ideas before any coding was started, and in doing so they were able to bring new ideas and methods to pretty much every standard aspect of notation and playback.. This is very evident on the forums when we, the users, ask questions about specific features (both current features, and planned future features) the responses show that the team has been conceptualizing and expanding on these features for a very long time, and how these specific features relate to overall future goal of Dorico. Not all questions get a long form answer because the specifics may not yet be fully set in stone, but it is clearly evident that the vast majority of our concerns have been foreseen and much planning and ingenuity has already taken place to solve them.

This gives me great confidence in knowing that as a first-day adopter of Dorico that I made the right choice. Dorico is already a very useful tool for me, and has been completely stable running in Windows 7. I'm very excited to see such a rigorous update schedule, and looking forward to the features and streamlining/optimization they bring.