I had my wife try out 4.0 today. She used 3.0 very irregularly, and only to read the bible and commentaries. I had the program open to the home page, but had removed news items, blog posts, etc. Here's a listing of her thoughts.
She liked immediately seeing that she could choose a prefered bible and create a reading plan (she really thought the reading plan was cool). She was confused about the lectionary.
She was initially confused about the homepage excerpts. She figured it out after studying it for a minute, but said that all the font sizes for headings should be the same. "366 inspiriing Hymn Stories" has a bigger font size, and her initial impression was that everything else on the home page was about that, since it looked the most important.
She immediately liked the simplicity of the layout, "as opposed to the 10,000 icons on the other version." She said she felt like she knew what to do and didn't need to call and ask for my help. She loved that when she clicked on file, guides, and tools and hovered over an item it gave her a pop-up that explained what it was (On Reading lists, she said that the pop-up shouldn't re-use the term "reading lists." She doesn't know what one is, so telling her that it helps find reading lists isn't that helpful).
She ran a bible word study and was easily able to navigate, click on dictionaries, and read the entries. She likes the little orange circles that pop-up.
She had fun running searches on the library and bibles. She was disappointed that when she hovered over basic, bible, morph, and syntax, there was no pop-up telling her what they were. She had no idea what a "morph" search was.
She liked that she could immediately open a bible by clicking on the picture next to "choose your prefered bible."
She ran a passage guide from the home page and liked that there was a bible and commentary that popped up. She didn't notice the "Enter passage or topic" right away though.
Overall, she said she loves the style. She was actually excited about using the program and felt like she could recommend it to students in the youth group (once the product is released and her legally binding NDA is over 
). She said it was ituitive, easy to use, and she gives it "Two thumbs up!"
