I don't know about that.  Sure they've got collections implemented alot earlier than anticipated, but they can 't even get basic things like background/font color adjustments in place.  That plus all the crashing and the lost writing horror stories on their forum make it hard to even test the thing seriously yet.

They've got some work in front of them before its worthy of being called a release version, IMO, but I'm still holding out hope they'll get it right soon.  Admittedly, Word 2010 is actually quite awesome, especially judged against the expectations that previous versions left us with (2003 nearly killed my entire department, some 130+ people across the Americas before we were able to tame its behavior), but it required that I create a custom template and set up a bunch of custom keyboard shortcuts to simulate the behavior of the outline mode in every other mode since the outline mode cuts alot of the basic functionality (such as the ability to change the background color to anything other than white).

Its just still so "manual" that I'm tripping over myself trying to manage the things that Scrivener should be handling in a much more "automagic" way.  My primary writing machine is a 12" laptop (Core2Duo 1.2gig that I generally keep running on one core to increase battery life and decrease heat; anything past 4 hours constant running time, even idle is a gift when running dual core as it tends to overheat and lock), and even with 4-6 windows open, Word 2010 is plenty peppy.  So far Scrivener is not, and every time I try anything other than simply typing text (clicking a button or any function in the menus, for example), there seems to be a 50%-50% chance of a crash.

In the mean time, I'm just trying to be as forcefully helpful as possible with the developer of WriteMonkey in hopes of getting a super light yet functional enough third option in play.

I know, I'm being long winded and I sound really grouchy, but the upshot of all this is that there is an unprecedented level of choice in writing tools.  Anyone claiming they don't have the tools as an excuse for not writing should be tossed out of the club.  When I was a kid, mom used to scavenge paper that had been printed on one side from work and free ballpoints with all sorts of logos on them so that we could write, especially during the really lean years (anyone remember that first oil crisis? talking from the US here; in a small midwestern town during that nonsense with one parent temping and the other hoping jobs and often finding himself in a union strike for a whole summer, we didn't do much but play outside, read what we could get from our tiny old library with the carved stone Carnegie plaque over the doors and WRITE).  I'm writing this from one of our new, awesome, cleanly well lit libraries.  Sure, I have my own laptop, but I am looking into a room of 20 nice newish DELLs with decent flatscreens where anyone could go for a couple hours a day and write using Google Docs (I've got a decent template for that even; doesn't help with organization, but you can use the Docs main page for that if you can figure out what you're doing) or Big Huge Labs' Writer (no organization to speak of, but a nice, simple distraction free environment), or any of what I am sure are several doze other web based, free services.  Heck, they've even changed the way the machines are set up here lately.  You could plug in a thumb drive (you could easily get an old one for free if you asked around, or the Library sells nice 2GB ones for like $8 if can't wait and have a few spare bucks to burn) and use Open Office that they've installed on all the machines for you.

Or you could still go old school ... scrap paper and golf pencils anyone?

Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.