Back in February at a TC training webinar, it was mentioned that TC 9 should be out in the next 30 days or so. Is there a release date for TestComplete 9?
Especially, I'd like to note that all major versions of TestComplete can co-exist on the same machine. So it is possible to have both TC8 and TC9 on your real test machine with two copies of test projects (one converted to TC9 format and one left as a stable working copy for TC8) and check if everything works as expected before fully migrating all test projects to TC9.